No. 36.-1888.] 



CAPTAIN JOAO R1BEIHO. 



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information which the manuscript gives separately, as I am 

 about to show : — 



1. Pedro Lopes de Sousa ; 



2. D. Hieronymo d'Azevedo ; 



3. D. Francisco de Menezes ; 



4. D. Manoel Horn em de Magalhaes ; 



5. D. Nuno Alvares Pereira ; 



6. Constantino de Sa Noronha ; 



7. Jorge de Albuquerque ; 



8. Constantino de Sa Noronha, a second time ; 



9. D. Jorge de Almeida ; 



10. Diogo de Mello ; 



11. D. Antonio Mascarenhas ; 



12. Manoel Mascarenhas Homem ; 



13. Francisco de Mello e Castro ; 



14. D. Filippe de Mascarenhas ; 



15. Francisco de Mello e Castro, a second time ; 



16. xVntonio d'Amaral Menezes occupied this post 

 in Janapatao [szc] until we also left that place. 



" This statement or list of names has in the printed original : 

 at the 4th, Mascarenhas, and not Magalhaes ; at the 12th, 

 D. Filippe Mascarenhas ; at the 13th, Manoel Mascarenhas 

 Homem ; at the 14th, Francisco de Mello e Castro ; and 

 finally, at the 15th, Antonio de Sousa Coutinho, a name that 

 was suppressed in the manuscript. 



" To verify the correctness of these names would have been 

 a good work, and I should have done it had I had the oppor- 

 tunity, and had there been in Evora the other elements 

 necessary for the study. 



" The suppression of the name of Antonio de Sousa Cou- 

 tinho is based, perhaps, on what is stated in the Descripqao 

 geral e histo?^ica das moedas, &c, of Sr. Teixeira de Aragao, 

 vol. 3, which on page 239 gives him as captain either of 

 Colombo or of Ceylon for 1657; whence we may conclude 

 that it was of Colombo, properly speaking, the capital of the 

 island, the Governor of the whole of it being Francisco 

 de Mello e Castro, who with him and Manoel de Mascarenhas 

 Homem formed the gubernatorial triumvirate of India from 

 May 22, 1656, to September 7, 1657. 



" As an addition of the copyist of 1732, the manuscript ends 

 with a List of the Governors of India up to 1754, a date 

 posterior to that of the autograph copy of Montarroio ; con- 

 sequently a further proof of the copyist's statement. 



" This List enumerates 91 Governors and Viceroys down to 

 the Conde d'Alva, D. Luiz de Mascarenhas, even giving some 

 who died on the voyage, such as Ruy Lourenco de Tavora, Joao 

 Pereira Forjas, Affonso de Noronha, and Joao de Silva Tello. 



" It appears to me, in concluding this rapid comparison, that 

 I have demonstrated the superiority and excellence of the 



