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successos dellas, que se puderam saber, para Noticia e in- 

 struccSo dos curiozos, e amantes da Historia da India": — 



Anno 1643. 



Joao Roiz de Sa Cap am Mor. 2 galeoes a 20 de Marco. 

 Partiu a 20 de Marco com dous galeoes 



de q erao Capitaes = 



O Cap am Mor no galeao S t0 Milagre 



Pedro de Aranjo do Azevedo — no galeao S ta Margarida 

 Successo : Vieram da India a 26 de Agosto de 1646 com 



Yizorrey o Conde de Aveiras. 



Translation. 

 Anno 1643, 



Joao Roiz de Sa Captain-Major. 2 galleons the 20 of March. 

 Left the 20 of March with two galleons the 

 Captains of which were : 



The Captain-Major in the galleon Sto. Milagre. 



Pedro de Aronjo de Azavado — in the galleon Sta Margarida. 

 Result : They returned from India the 26 of August 1646 with 

 the Viceroy the Conde de Aveiras. 



From the above we learn that the two ships under the 

 command of Sa e Menezes returned to Lisbon after an 

 absence of nearly three and a half years, and that one of 

 them carried the late Viceroy, JoSo da Silva Tello, Conde de 

 Aveiras,* who, after five years of office, had handed over the 

 government to Dom Filippe Mascarenhas, late Captain- 

 General of Ceylon.f Owing to the absence of any letters of 

 1647 and 1648 from the collection of Portuguese Royal Letters 

 in the British Museum Library from which the documents 

 given ante are copied, I am unable to add any further details 

 regarding the return of Jo&o Rodriguez and his small fleet. 



* He was appointed Viceroy a second time in 1 650, but died on the voyage 

 out. 



t See Ribeiro, Fatal. Hist., 99, 140-141. 



