BRIT. MUS., SLOANE MS. 197, FOLIO 18.

P. Barretto de Resende's Portrait of

THE

COMMENTARIES

OF THE GREAT

AFONSO DALBOQUERQUE,

SECOND VICEROY OF INDIA.

TRANSLATED FROM THE

PORTUGUESE EDITION OF 1774,

With Notes and an Entroduction,

BY

WALTER DE GRAY BIRCH, F.R.S.L.,

SENIOR ASSISTANT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH
MUSEUM; HONORARY LIBRARIAN OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF
LITERATURE; HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH
ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, ETC.

VOL. III.

"Se as acções d'Albuquerque fossem communs, e ordinarias; se as suas emprezas
não passassem as metas do possivel, nem a posteridade o collocaria na ordem dos
Héroes, nem o seu nome chegaria a merecer o reverente pasmo dos seculos futuros."--
ELOGIO por Fr. Xav. de Oliveira.

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CITY

CALIFORNI

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PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

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