[15] Hunter’s “Imperial Gazetteer of India,” vol. vi., article India, p. 360.
[16] Camoens, “Lusiads,” canto v. stanzas 46-48.
[17] The Viscount de Santarem in his “Memoria sobre o estabelicemento de Macau.”
[18] According to the estimate formed at the close of 1888, Brazil had a population of 14,002,335 inhabitants, while according to the census of 1878 Portugal had a population of 4,160,315, in the Azores and Madeira 390,384, the possessions in Asia 847,503, and the possessions in Africa, 2,741,448.
[19] On the character of Dom Sebastian, Sir Richard Burton has written some thoughtful pages; see his Commentary on Camoens, vol. i. pp. 341-344.
[20] The word Maulā, generally corrupted into Muley, is said by Sir Richard Burton (Camoens, Commentary, vol. i. p. 350) to mean lord, master, and leader.
[21] For the early history of the university, see Denifle “Die Universitäten des Mittelalters,” vol. i. pp. 519-534.
[22] Montaigne’s “Essais,” i. 25.
[23] “Encyclopædia Britannica,” Art. Portugal.
[24] On the history of these pretenders, see “Les Faux Don Sébastien,” by Miguel Martins d’Antas, the late Portuguese minister in London, published at Paris, 1866.