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Not long after the monsoon had set in there arrived at 

 Anjadiva from Sofala, by way of Quiloa and Melinde, four 

 ships, the captains of which were Pero Barreto de Magalhaes, 

 his cousin Payo de Sousa, Jorge Mendes Qacoto, and Lucas 

 d'Affonseca, the first three of whom had left Portugal with 

 Pero da Nhaya in May 1505,* and the last had, as we have 

 seen, formed one of the captains of caravels inD. Francisco de 

 Almeida's fleet. Pero Barreto, Payo de Sousa, and Jorge Men- 

 des were afraid to venture further in the teeth of the monsoon ; 

 but Lucas d'Affonseca, whose ship was larger, managed to 

 reach Cochin, bringing with him a number of persons from the 

 other three vessels, f Now if, as Barros confidently states 

 (see B 9), Payo de Sousa J was the ambassador sent to the 

 Sinhalese king by Dom Lourenco when he visited Ceylon, it 

 is evident that the " discovery " of that island could not 

 have taken place before May 1506.§ 



Towards the close of the " winter" there arrived at Cochin, 

 in August 1506, | J the ship Julioa,^ commanded by Cide 

 Barbudo, who, together with Pero Quaresma, had left Portugal 

 on 19 November 1505,** to take supplies to Sofala and to 



* See Theal's Beg. of S. A. History 183-87. 



f I follow Cast. ii. p. 92, where in line 8 " Pero de Sousa " is an evident 

 error. 



% He seems to be the " Payo Rodrigues de Sousa " of whom we read 

 later on as commanding a galley (c/. Cast. ii. c. 118 and Cor. i. 899), 

 and who was killed in December 1508 while accompanying the vice- 

 roy's expedition against the Turks (Cast. ii. c. xcv. , Bar. II. in. v.). 



§ This objection is equally valid if the envoy were Fernao Cotrim, 

 as I shall show later on (p. 310, note %). 



|| Cast. (ii. c. xxxii.) says it was after the setting in of the " summer '* 

 in September, but this is incorrect. 



^| The name of Cide Barbudo 's ship is nowhere mentioned ; but I 

 infer it to have been this vessel from a passage in the letter of Gaspar 

 da India mentioned below, which runs : " Sire, when the ship Julyoa 

 arrived she brought news of your highness to Dom Francisco Dalmeida" 

 {Cartas ii. 377). According to Bar. (I. vi. iii.) the Julioa formed % 

 one of the fleet of 1502 under Vasco da Gama, she being then com- 

 manded by Lopo Mendes de Vasconcellos, who also accompanied Lopo 

 Soares to India in 1504, perhaps in the same ship. 



** SeeCa' Masser 21 ; Alg.Doc. 147-49, where is printed a letter from 

 Pero Quaresma, dated Mpcambique, 31 August 1506, giving a 

 description of the voyage and events on the east coast of Africa (see 



