[390] The 7th of April was a Saturday (see p. [34]).
[391] The preceding dates agree with those in the Journal, but the anchorage, two leagues from Calecut (see p. [48]) was only reached on May 20th, and the stay at or off Calecut was certainly much longer than the seventy-four days allowed by Rezende. In fact, seventy-four days would only carry us from May 20th to August 1st.
[392] That is, the mouth of the Tagus.
[393] A sailing vessel occasionally propelled by oars.
[394] Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, Estudos sobre navios Portuguezes, Lisbon (Ac. Real), 1892, p. 58.
[395] A pilot, Fernando Rodriques Berrio, resided at Lagos in 1502, and there were other members of the same family (Varnhagen).
[396] Goes, Chronica do Rei D. Emanuel, 1790, I, p. 10.
[397] Only their type, for the legend below N. Coelho’s ship (“which they broke up”) shows that these are not portraits of the actual vessels, but fancy sketches. Coelho’s vessel was the first to return to Lisbon; it was the store-ship which was broken up.
[398] Obras de Luiz de Camões, VI.
[399] Stanley’s Vasco da Gama, p. 26.