[265] Collecção de S. Vicente, t. III, fol. 513; XIV, fol. 1.
[266] Collecção de S. Vicente, t. XIV, fol. 1.
[267] Gaspar da Gama certainly came in the S. Gabriel (see Sernigi’s letter, Appendix B).
[268] The immediate business of Pedro Correa was to get Pope Alexander VI to grant permission to the Commanders and Knights of the Orders of Christ and Aviz to marry. In this he succeeded (Goes, Chronica do D. Manuel, I, c. 15).
[269] “e proveito nosso.” This, in Alguns Documentos, is rendered “e principalemente nosso”. It is just possible that the King meant to say that the “service of God” was his principal object, as it had been that of his predecessors.
[270] “By these same discoverers” (Alguns Documentos).
[271] This reference to “boughs and leaves” reminds us of what the author of the Journal says about gathering the branches and leaves of supposed cinnamon trees, p. 81.
[272] Alguns Documentos adds: “nor such as suited”, that is, suited the requirements of the Indian market.
[273] This paragraph only appears in Alguns Documentos.
[274] The King, or his advisers, thus at once identified Ptolemy’s Taprobane with Ceylon, whilst Ortelius, the professional geographer, seventy-six years later, still assigns that name to Sumatra (see his map Indiae Orientalis, in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum).