BARRETTO DE RESENDE’S ACCOUNT OF MALACCA. 3 
Of the plans, charts, and portraits with which Barretto de 
Resende’s manuscript is embellished, six have been reproduced in 
the Hakluyt Society’s edition of the Commentaries of Afonso 
Dalboquerque. They are :— 
The map of Arabia in Vol: ky p: 80 
The plan of Ormus | 55 jee dll Ue 
The portrait of D. Francisco 
Dalmeida So HUME Ton aks) 
The chart of Goa 55 p. 88 
The plan of the fortress 
of Malacca arene Loe 
The portrait of Diogo Lopes 
de Sequeira fe p. 254 
Gohindo de Eredia’s account of Malaceca—the Declaracam de 
Malaca e India Meridional dated A.D. 1613, and translated into 
French by Janssen in A.D. 1882, is the best known Portuguese 
work on Malacca, and as a comparison of his account and as 
Resende’s account is interesting, give in an appendix a translation 
of de Eredia’s first and fifteenth chapters entitled “ Regarding the 
city of Malaca”’ and “ Regarding Gunoledam” respectively. I 
have translated them from Janssen’s French, and not from the 
original Portuguese. 
Description of the Fortress of Malacca. 
The fortress of Malacca is situated on the east coast of Jun- 
tana ~ between the River Panagim * and Muar 2° 20' N. lat. 
It was conquered and founded by the great Alfonso de 
Albuquerque on the 15th of August 1511. At the present day it 
is a city, containing a fortress, and surrounded by a stone and 
mortar wall twenty feet high, twelve palms thick at the foot and 
seven at the top. | 
It contains six bastions, including the breastwork (couraca ), 
each one called by the name written on it. All the walls have 
parapets, and each bastion occupies a space of twenty paces and 
the one named Madre de Deos double that space, so that it can 
scarcely be defended and covered by the other bastions. The 
circumference of the whole wall is five hundred and twelve paces, 
including the space occupied by the bastions. From the _ bastion 
de Ospital to that of St. Dominic there is a counterscarp, as also 
from that of Sanctiago to Madre de Deos, with a ditch in the 
centre, the whole being fourteen palms wide. The bastions contain 
forty-one pieces of artillery of twelve to forty-four pounds iron 
shot. All are of bronze, with the exception of nine iron pieces, and 
there is sufficient powder and ammunition in His Majesty’s 
magazines for their supply. Twelve of the big pieces lie unmounted 
on the plain, destined for the fort in process of building on the 
Ilha das Naos, and some ‘of the remainder are broken. 
R. A, Soc., No. 60, I911 
folio 383. 
