FOOTNOTES:
[19] The Emperor, who was the Prince’s cousin and brother-in-law, welcomed him with open arms at Barcelona. On one occasion, when neither would go through a door before the other and the Emperor insisted on Prince Luis being the first to pass, the latter seized a torch from one of the pages and so preceded him.
[20] In a letter to King João III from India he recalls all his services since the age of eighteen and says: “For the love of God and in reward for these services I beg your Highness to allow me to return to Portugal to live with my wife and children and end the few troubled days that remain to me in the Serra de Cintra,” and in 1540 he writes to Prince Luis that only the arrival of a Turkish fleet in India will prevent him from returning to Portugal.
[21] Then, as in the Middle Ages, the beard was considered an honourable pledge, and men swore by it as Zeus might swear by the River Styx. Albuquerque in India had given some hairs of his beard to a soldier and afterwards redeemed them by a payment of money.
[22] From Sir Peter Wyche’s picturesque seventeenth-century translation of Jacinto Freire de Andrada’s Life of Dom João de Castro.
[23] Wyche’s version.
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