[4] “Escoras.”
[5] “Perdeo sua pobreza.”
[6] “Moradia.”
[7] Albuquerque did not arrive before Goa till the 24th November. Correa, tom. ii, p. 145.
[8] A facsimile of this signature is given in the plate.
[9] This document has been abridged here; it is taken from a copy in the Torre do Tombo, made from another copy, which is very illegible. The Spanish is rather antiquated, and much debased, apparently by Portuguese copyists, who have mixed up their own orthography. The Secretary’s name was Francisco, not Fernan.
[10] From this it appears that Magellan anticipated that America would end like Africa.
[11] D. Jorge of Portugal, Bishop of Siguenza.
[12] The date of the year is not given; however, as the despatch mentions this year as the year of the marriage, it must be assumed to have been written in 1518. D. Manuel married the daughter of Philip I, Da. Leonor, in Villa do Crato, 24th November, 1518. The treaty of the marriage was made at Saragossa 22nd May, 1518, and ratified in Saragossa 16th July, 1518.
[13] Literally, the road to Coimbra.