Notes on the So-called ‘‘ Post Office Stone.” 197 
in Bahia Fermoza, now known as Plettenberg Bay, and doubtless 
the stone marked the spot. 
Mr. Donald Ferguson informs me that there is a Portuguese 
manuscript in the British Museum (B. M. Addit. MS., 20, 902) in 
which is an account of the disaster. The title of the MS. is as 
follows :— 
‘“‘Relagao dos Naos, e Armadas da India com os successos dellas 
qG se perdéram saber, para noticia, e instruccad dos curiozos, e 
amantes da Historia da India.’’ (B. M. Addit. MS. 20, 901.) 
fol. 267. 
The following is a translation of the title and the extract relating 
to the disaster in question :— 
‘‘ Account of the India Ships and Fleets with their successes as 
far as can be ascertained, for the information and instruction of the 
curious and lovers of the history of India. 
‘‘Dom Miguel de Noronha Conde de Linhares, viceroy ; succeeded 
the Governors as will be seen on the following page. 
“¢ Anno 1629. 
First fleet that the ‘« There left on the third of April with three 
Company prepared: ships and six galleons the viceroy the Conde 
Left on the 3rd of April, de Linhares in the ship Santissimo Sacra- 
Tuesday. mento. It reached India on the 21st of 
The successes that the October 1629; left for the Kingdom [ze., 
ine ae in Portugal] on the 4th of March 1630; and 
Foie aniibercccnten arrived at the Kingdom on the 27th of Sep- 
ft. 287. tember 1630. There came as Captain of the 
ship Sancho de Faria da Silva. 
‘“‘ Nossa Senhora de Bom Despacho, captain- 
major Francisco de Mello de Castro, reached 
India on the 15th of October; left for the 
Kingdom on the 4th of March 1630; reached 
Angola on the 3rd of August; left on the 5th 
of April; arrived at Lisbon on the 3rd of July 
1631. 
‘Sad Goncalo, captain Antonio Pinheiro de Sampaio, reached 
India on the 24th of September ; left for the Kingdom on the 4th of 
March. This Antonio Pinheiro de Sampaio, captain of the ship 
S. Goncalo, died in India and there came in his place Fernad Lobo 
de Menezes, which ship on the return voyage put in to the Bahia 
Fermoza ;* where being anchored, it foundered in a gale, which 
Successes. 
* See map at p. 306 of Theal’s ‘‘ Records of S.H. Africa,” vol. i. 
