Contents

pp ix-x

INTRODUCTION

pp i-xxii

CHRONOLOGY OF PART I

pp xxiii-xxiv

TITLE TO THE EDITION OF 1774, ETC.

pp xxv-xxx

EPISTLE DEDICATORY OF NICOLAO PAGLIARINI TO THE MARQUEZ DE POMBAL

pp xxxi-xxxvi

1 - Sketch of the Life and Character of Afonso Dalboquerque

pp xxxvii-xlvi

2 - Account of Affonso Dalboquerque, the Younger

pp xlvii-l

Dedication

pp li-lii

TITLES OF THE CHAPTERS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST PART

pp liii-lx

PART I - COMMENTARIES OF AFONSO DALBOQUERQUE.

CHAPTER I - How he went to India for the first time as chief captain of three vessels, and arrived at Cochim, and what further took place

pp 1-5

CHAPTER II - How the great Afonso Dalboquerque and Francisco Dalboquerque, after the skirmish, had an audience with the king upon the building of the fortress, and what passed between them

pp 5-8

CHAPTER III - How the great Dalboquerque arrived at Coulão, and what passed with the governors of the land

pp 8-11

CHAPTER IV - How the ships from Calicut hove in sight of Coulão, and the great Afonso Dalboquerque prepared to fight them, and what took place thereupon with the governors of the land

pp 11-13

CHAPTER V - Of the treaty which the great Afonso made with the governors of the land respecting peace, before his setting out, and the rest that took place with the native Christians there, and his setting out for Cochim

pp 13-16

CHAPTER VI - How the great Afonso Dalboquerque set out from Cochim to Cananor, and what took place till he arrived at Portugal

pp 16-19

CHAPTER VII - How the king, D. Manoel, sent Tristão da Cunha to India in the year '6, and Afonso Dalboquerque accompanied him in a fleet of fourteen sail, that they might erect the fortress of Çacotora

pp 19-22

CHAPTER VIII - How the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, despatched the caravel to Portugal, and set out from. Biziguiche: and what took place until he arrived at Moçambique

pp 23-25

CHAPTER IX - How the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, from the information which the negroes whom Rui Pereira brought gave him, determined to go and discover the Island of S. Lourenço

pp 26-28

CHAPTER X - How the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, got himself ready to go and explore the island, and what took place therein

pp 28-30

CHAPTER XI - How the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, returned along the coast, and all but perished, and what passed with the great Afonso Dalboquerque

pp 31-33

CHAPTER XII - How the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, left Moçambique with his fleet, and had an audience with the King of Melinde, and thence went to Angoja and destroyed it

pp 34-36

CHAPTER XIII - How the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, proceeded to Braboa, and what passed there

pp 37-41

CHAPTER XIV - How the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, went to attack the city of Braboa, and after its destruction sailed for Çocotora

pp 41-44

CHAPTER XV - How the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, left Braboa, and made his course direct for the island of Çocotora, and what happened there

pp 44-49

CHAPTER XVI - How the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, entered the fortress, and what took place when he arrived there

pp 49-52

CHAPTER XVII - Of the message which the chief captain, Tristão da Cunha, sent to the people of the land, and what passed with them, and how he finished the fortress of Çocotora, and sailed for India; and how the great Afonso Dalboquerque became chief captain of the fleet

pp 53-56

CHAPTER XVIII - How the great Afonso Dalboquerque, after Tristão da Cunha had sailed, made his fleet ready, and sailed with the intention of going to wait for the Moorish ships which came from India to the straits, and what happened thereupon

pp 56-59

CHAPTER XIX - How the great Afonso Dalboquerque, owing to his great need of supplies, shaped his course for the Straits of Ormuz, and arrived at Masoate

pp 60-62