1875.] 



Portuguese Inscriptions from Mombassa. 



217 



the native King* make up the sum of all that has of late been known of 

 the remains of the Portuguese monuments on the Coast of Zanzibar. 



(Sd.) J. GrEEEON DA CimHA. 



Bombay, 25th September, 1875. 



(a.) 



The inscriptions in the three 

 compartments . 



Inscriptions over the inner 

 door (1) are quite unintelligible. 

 The name India occurs in the 

 second, in the third there are* 



Alburquerque Baptis Tacar- 

 rato and Rodriarues. 



Translation, 

 (a.) 



* the equivalents 

 of by his order. 



(Por seo mandado) 

 1593 and the 



the figures, 

 names. 



(Crests.) 



(1) ** 

 (a break) 



(On the Commandant's House.) 



(1) 



* 48. Da Silva de Menezes entered the 

 Fortress finding it * * * dilapidated (he) 

 undertook to have repairs made to the 

 Soldiers' Houses (Barracks) and three 

 Store houses and an Hospital and caused 

 the inscription to be made. Knight by 

 name St. Antonio. 



11 



11 



11 



E. Alves Palow 

 Alberts. Matheus. 



Cross. 



(True copy), 



(Sd.) A. Caeson - , 

 Swpdt. 



(True translation), 



(Sd.) Eenest Menessee, 

 Portuguese Translator to Govt, 



Extract from a letter from H. M.'s Political Agent and Consul General, 

 Zanzibar, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign 

 Department, J¥o. 7G, dated Zanzibar, 3lst July, 1875. 



Para 6. ******** 



" I took this opportunity of requesting permission to have copied the 

 few Portuguese inscriptions which are still to be found upon the walls of 

 the fort. The one over the exterior gate having been described by Captain 

 Burton was omitted. Through the kindness of Captain Gray an, the Hon'ble 

 Feley Vcrekar of H. M. S. " Nassau," I am now enabled to enclose for 

 your consideration copies of the other inscriptions extant which I believe 

 have never been transcribed before. One of these numbered I, is let into 

 the wall over the interior gate and is in pitch darkness. It would have 

 escaped notice altogether, had it not been pointed out by the Arab Jemadar 

 of the Fort who furnished a lantern and a ladder for its perusal." 



Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, the Hakluyt Society's publication, pp. Ml 



and 112. 



