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Venetian family. He left Venice for Rome on 9 March 1507. After- 

 wards he went as ambassador to Spain, and then to France (see 

 Rawdon Brown's Cat. of State Papers — Venice, &e., vols. 2 and 3 

 passim). 



4 Through some error the copies of the king's letters to the pope 

 and cardinals are printed, with a number of other documents, after 

 the diarist's entries for November : they should evidently have been 

 inserted at the end of December. 



5 See sivpra, B 5. 



B 7. 



Instructions given by King D. Manuel regarding certain paintings 

 that he commanded to be made , in which were to be depicted 

 the discovery of India, various costumes thereof, and some 

 of the incidents of the first years of its conquest. 1 



[1510 ? 2 ] 



******* 

 Item. The discovery of Taprobana : and how the ships arrive and 

 set up the padram ; and how the king of the country received the 

 ambassadors, and the fashion in which they say that he was ; and 

 how those of the country bring loads of cinnamon to put in the 

 ships. 



1 These are printed in Alg. Doc. 516-18. 



2 The document is undated, but I think we may safely place it 

 at the end of 1510, for the following reasons : It records the burning 

 of Calecut, which took place in January 1510, and the news of which 

 would have reached the king by the ships that arrived at Lisbon in 

 October following ; but it does not refer to the capture of Goa in 

 November 1510 — an event that the king would hardly have failed 

 to mention had he known of it when he gave these instructions. 



B 8. 



Castanheda ii. caps, lxx., lxxiii. 



[November 1505 ?] 



And after this, on the 2nd of November, the viceroy 



began to send the ships that had to return to Portugal, to take in 

 their cargoes. And he also sent some ships and smaller vessels 

 to relieve the fortresses of Cananor and Anjadiva : and he ordored 

 Dom Lourenco to go in the ship of Felipe Rodriguez 1 to the 

 islands of Maldiva, which are sixty leagues from the coast of India, 

 and to make prizes of many ships and junks which he knew for a 

 fact were passing by there, both from Malaca, and from Qamatra, 

 and from Bengala, and from other countries of the southern parts, 

 and which were carrying much spicery, drugs, gold, silver, and 



