[5] “Encyclopædia Britannica,” 9th edition, Article “Portugal.”
[6] Camoens, “Lusiads,” canto iii. stanzas 96, 97, Burton’s translation.
[7] “Lusiads,” canto iii. stanzas 118-135.
[8] Camoens, “Lusiads,” canto iv. stanzas 52, 53.—Burton’s translation.
[9] The leading authority for the discoveries of the Portuguese in this century is “The Life of Prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the Navigator, and its results,” by R. H. Major, London, 1868, of which a Portuguese translation, by J. A. Ferreira Brandão, was published at Lisbon in 1876.
[10] There is a good deal of contentious literature on the chronology of the African voyages of the Portuguese explorers, and in this account Mr. Major’s “Prince Henry the Navigator” has been followed.
[11] “The Story of the Moors in Spain,” chapter ii. p. 24.
[12] “Apontamentos para a Historia da Conquista de Portugal por Filippe II,” by A. P. Lopes de Mendonça, in vol. ii. of the “Annaes das Sciencias Moraes e Politicas.”
[13] These Commentaries have been translated for the Hakluyt Society by W. de Grey Birch.
[14] For this quotation, as well as the most precise and exact information on the state of India during the Portuguese dominion, I must express my indebtedness to Sir W. W. Hunter’s “Imperial Gazetteer of India,” new edition, and refer to vol. vi., article India, chapter xiv., and the articles on Calicut, Cochin, Daman, Diu, and Goa.