194 SHORT NOTES. 
By the kindness of the British Museum authorities I 
have been able to get copies of the manuscript which I have 
had translated The two accounts are, as will be seen, ex- 
tremely scrappy, but as they give the only record of an epoch 
making voyage, they are, I think worthy of publication. 
The manuscript bears number “ Additional M. S. 20,902, 
folio 11 and 11b,” and runs as follows: 
Jorge de Aguiar, Captain Mor—Year 1508. 
Jorge de Aguiar set sail on the 9th April in command of 
eight vessels. 
Captains: Vasco Carvalho, Ruy da Cunha, Jodo Raiz 
Pereira, Alvaro Borreto, Tristao da Silva, Goncalo Mendes de 
Brito, Francisco Pereira, Pestana, who wintered in Quilova. 
Besides these eight.merchant vessels, there were four small 
vessels for the war of Ormus, Duarte de Lemos being in com- 
mand of these last. 
Captains: Joao Colaco, Gongalo da Silveira, Diego de 
Attaide, Fero Correa, and Diogo Correa. [A marginal note 
says; 8 vessels on the 9th April, and 4 others, some 
‘say Oo. 
In this year Diogo Lopez de Siqueira, Almotacel Mor of 
the kingdom, set sail on the 5th April, as commander of four 
vessels to discover and conquer Malacca. 
Captains : 
In the Sta. Clara—Jeronimo Teixera, Goncalo de Souza, 
and Joao Nunes’ He returned with all the ships in safety to 
the kingdom. Another report is as follows :— 
Jorge de Aguiar, Captain Mor, set sail on the 9th April 
with thirteen sail of which the Captains were: 
Tristam da Silva ; 
Joao Roiz Pereira in the Botafogo ; 
Vasco Carvalho ; 
Alvaro Barreto in the Sta. Marta ; 
Francisco Pereira Pestana ; 
Gongalo Mendez de Brito ; 
Joao Colaco ; 
Jeur. Stiaits Branch 
