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22 May 1506, and the last reached Lisbon on 3 June.* Mean- 

 while a second fleet of three ships had left Cananor for Portugal 

 on 21 January, viz., the Lionarda (Diogo Correa,f captain), 

 another ship the name of which I cannot findj (Goncalo 

 Gil Barbosa,§ captain ?), and the Madalena (Diogo Fer- 

 nandes Correa,|| captain). Of these, the first two reached 

 Lisbon on 15 November 1506,^[ but the last, after a de- 



* Leon. Ca' Masser, in recording the arrivals of these five ships, says 

 that two were on the king's account, two German (a Florentine, Bartolo, 

 participating), and one of " Fernando dalla Rogna, cristian nuovo." 

 He details their cargoes, and describes the ships as "la nave Capitana 

 del Re ," " la nave Concezion del Re ," " nave Buonfuogo de marcadanti , ' ' 

 '" la nave de Ferando [sic] dalla Rogna," and another " nave de 

 marcadanti." There seems to be an error here, as we know that the 

 S. Rafael and S. J eronimo were owned by Germans. It is also difficult 

 to know which ship is referred to as " la nave Capitana." From 

 what the writer says elsewhere it would appear that Fernando de 

 Loronha, or Noronha, the " converted " Jew, was a wealthy shipowner 

 doing a large business. (We shall come across him again later on.) 

 According to Harrisse {Amer. Vesp. 35), Girolamo Priuli, 9 July 

 1506, on the authority of a letter received from Genoa, refers to the 

 " charavelle che gionseno questo Mazo passato, che forono quatro," 

 and mentions news received that " altre 4 charavelle o ver nave erano 

 gionte in Portogallo a li 26 di Zugno, venute del viazo de l'lndia," 

 and describes the cargo. The " news " must have grown on the journey, 

 for only one ship, not four, arrived on 26 June. 



f All the authorities call this man simply " Diogo Correa," and Cast, 

 and Bar. describe him as son of Frei Payo Correa. He must be dis- 

 tinguished from the Diogo Fernandes Correa mentioned below, and 

 from a Diogo Mendes Correa referred to later on. 



J It may have been one of those left behind by Lopo Soares. 



§ As mentioned above, Cast, alone of the historians names this man 

 among the captains of the homeward fleet. He was factor at Cananor, 

 having been appointed to that office by Vasco da Gama in January 

 1503. By his instructions from the king, the viceroy was ordered to 

 send this man and Diogo Fernandes Correa (see next note), with their 

 clerks, &c, home by the returning ships, of two of which they were to 

 be given the captaincies (Cartas de Aff. de Alb. ii. 326). 



|| Alcaide mor and factor at Cochin, for which office he had come out 

 in Vasco da Gama's fleet in 1502, when, according to Correa, he 

 commanded the S. Rafael (see Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama 281). 

 According to Gaspar Pereira's letter to King Manuel in Cartas de 

 Aff. de Alb. (p. 369), the king of Cochin was moved to tears at losing 

 Diogo Fernandes. 



As we learn from the narrative of Balthazar Sprenger, who was on 

 board the Lionarda. 



