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came upon it while at anchor, and was lost, 133 persons perishing. 
In this Bay were made two pataxos,* one of which left for Mozam- 
bique where it arrived; and the other at the Cape of Good Hope 
caught sight of the ship S. Ignacio de Loyola of the fleet of the 
year 1630 and arrived alongside of it, where they took in the 
people, and abandoned the pataxo; and the captain Fernad Lobo 
de Menezes, who came in the said pataxo died in the said ship 
S. Ignacio.” 
Another account of the shipwreck of the San Gonzales is to be 
found in the Asia Portuguesa of Manuel de Faria e Sousa, a work 
published in Spanish at Lisbon in three folio volumes in 1666 and 
1674. An English translation by Captain John Stevens was pub- 
lished in London in 1695, entitled, ‘‘ The Portuguese Asia; or, the 
History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portuguese.” 
Extracts from this translation are included in Mr. G. McC. Theal’s 
‘‘ Records of South-Eastern Africa,’ recently published, and the 
one dealing with the wreck of the San Gonzales is to be found on 
page 44. As this translation is stated by Mr. Ferguson not to be a 
very accurate one, I have had the account of the wreck copied out of 
the original Spanish work now in the British Museum, and append 
a translation, for which I am indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Péringuey, 
to whom I return my best thanks. 
Translation of an Extract from the 8th Chapter of the 3rd volume of 
the Asia Portuguesa of Manuel de Faria e Sousa, published in 3 
folio volumes at Lisbon, 1666-1674. 
12. And in order to prove that he who is fated to die finds death 
in the very thing which is intended to save, we shall narrate here 
the loss of the ship S. Gonzalo, which served as a refuge to some 
who thereby lost their life. 
In the early days of March there sailed from Goa three vessels, 
the commander-in-chief of which was Francisco de Mello, and the 
other two captains were Sancho de Faria and Fernando Lobo de 
Meneses. It is the wreck of the last which is of interest (to demon- 
strate what has been adduced). After having undergone the terrible 
expectation caused by the fear of the sinking of such a large vessel, 
the sailors fearing death owing to the vessel having sprung a leak 
and being compelled on that score to make for the land, they came 
to the bay called Fermosa (the beautiful), owing to its capacity, 
being three leagues wide at the mouth and five leagues in circum- 
* Pinnaces, 
