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himself, and saying that a man of good breeding should not 

 relate his own actions, as he would thereby destroy their value. 22 



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 In these ships of this year the viceroy sent a very small elephant, 

 one of those brought by Dom Lourenco, which was the first that 

 ever went to Portugal. 23 



1 See supra, p. 301. 



2 In the following paragraph Correa relates how, a second fleet having 

 been placed under the command of Rodrigo Rabello for the purpose of 

 cruising along the Malabar coast, Lourenco de Brito, the captain of 

 Cananor, demanded that he should have command of one of the fleets. 

 After a heated altercation, the viceroy justified his appointments to 

 Lourenco de Brito's satisfaction, and the two parted good friends. 



3 The composition of the fleet and names of the captains must be 

 regarded with great suspicion. Manuel Telles, at any rate, had sailed 

 for Portugal in January (see supra, p. 295). 



4 Correa is the only historian who gives the date of Dom Lourenco's 

 sailing, and it is incorrect, though not so very far out (see B 1). 



5 So the Portuguese reads ; but, as it is stated immediately after- 

 wards that the Maldives were not sighted, we must take Correa's meaning 

 to be that the ships were tacking about endeavouring to make the islands. 



6 It will be seen that all through his account Cor. has many details 

 wanting in Cast, and Bar. Unfortunately most of these must be con- 

 sidered inventions. 



7 The accusations were only too true, as Correa well knew. 



8 Cor. alone mentions this man. If he was not a creation of the 

 writer's brain, he was probably related to the viceroy. 



9 Cor. alone mentions the two elephants. The king may have given 

 these, as well as the cinnamon, but they formed no part of the original 

 tribute, though later this included elephants (see C 26). 



10 Plantains, which the Portuguese designated " Indian figs " (see 

 Hobson-Jobson s.v. " Plantain "). 



11 Probably young coconuts (kurumbas) are meant. 



12 Cf. C 22. 



13 Varthema (A 18) says "1,000 miles," which is less than Correa's 

 estimate, since the Portuguese league was about 4 \ Italian miles 

 (see First Voy. of V. da Gama 245). 



14 Cf. A 18. 



15 See B 1, note 6 . 



16 See B 8, B 9. 



17 See B 2, note 12 . 



18 Whiteway {Rise of Port Power in India 108 n.) thinks that this 

 is "a distorted description of a crocodile." 



19 The halberd was Dom Lourenco's favourite weapon (see p. 293, n. §). 



20 Apparently Correa means that he saw the bones in Ceylon. If 

 so, he was probably on board the catur which, he says, called at Ceylon 

 in September 1538, on its way to Choromandel carrying the news of the 

 coming of the Rooms (Turks) to besiege Diu (Cor. hi. 882, iv. 27). _ 



21 The reference is to i. 645-46, where, after recording the arrival in 

 India from Mozambique, in August 1506, of Pedro Coresma (!) and Cide 

 Barbudo (see p. 303), Correa continues : " The viceroy commanded 

 to repair these ships, and careen them, because they were large and now 

 of the past year, and if they remained in India would utterly perish ; 

 and he also commanded to repair the ship Judia (!), and the Condona, 

 in which were to go Leonel de Castro and Dom Francisco da Cunha, as 



