INDEX

Adil Shah, Yusuf, 104 Barreiro, 20, 22, 68 Afonso, D., son of D. João II, 3 Barretto de Rezende, Pedro, 28 Afonso III, D., king of Portugal, 6 Barros, João de, 26, 31 Afonso V, D., king of Portugal, 2, 157 on command of 1497 fl eet, 4–6, 9 and Estêvão da Gama, 6 on departure of 1497 fl eet, 30–31 succession war with Castile, 6 on manpower of 1497 fl eet, 16 Afonso, Álvaro, 126 and journal manuscript, 18 Afonso, Martin, on voyage to India, 13 ashore at terra de boa gente, 46–47 Belém, 30, 135, 137 buys ox at São Brás Bay, 41 Bengal, 116–117 translator, 14, 20, 126 Berrio, caravel, 12 Alchocete, 20–22, 68 at Rio dos Bons Sinais, 47–48 Alentejo, province of Portugal, 6, 42 attacked at Mombasa, 62 Alexander VI, pope, careened at Anjediva, 103 grants favorable bulls to Castile and crew, 16 Aragon, 3 strikes sandbar at Mozambique, 49 informed of Vasco da Gama’s success returns to Lisbon, 111, 142 by D. Manuel I, 141 Betel nut, 77–78 Alexandria, 98, 113, 153 Bezoar stone, 113 prices for spices, 119 Bijapur, sultanate of, 104 Algarve, 7 Bontaibo (cf. Monçaide) Alenquer, Pêro d’, 125 Borba, count of, 131 at St. Helena Bay, 36 Braga, Álvaro de, near the Cape of Good Hope, 38–39 escrivão of Berrio, 14, 125 pilot of São Gabriel, 13, 20 Brazil, 3 Alum, 114 Burma (Pegu), 116 Álvares, Gonçalo, 13, 20, 125 Burton, Sir Richard, 26 Ameixoeira, João de, 126 and literary style of roteiro, 25 Anjedive Islands, 24, 134, 166 visited by fl eet, 101–105 Cabral, Pedro Álvares (de Gouveia) (1502), 166 and 1500 fl eet, 154, 160–162 Angra de São Brás, 110 Cairo, 3, 98, 139, 145 Arabian Sea, 69–70, 144, 151 Calçadilha, bishop of, 131, 136 Arabs, 55 Calcoen, 163–170 commercial power in Indian Ocean, Calicut, 14, 23, 69, 141, 144, 152–153, 23, 25, 151 163, 167 lobby against Vasco da Gama, 91–92, arrival of fl eet, 70–71 145 described, 72, 98–99, 148–149 Arguin Island, 2 kingdoms south of, described, Astrolabe, 17 113–118 Atlantic Ocean, 3, 10 language of, 121–124 Aviz, Order of, 4, 6, 10 names there, 124 Azores, 2, 3, 22, 111 visited by men of fl eet, 89–90 Cambay, Gulf of, 69, 166 Bab el Mandeb, Straits of, 147 Cambridge, earl of, 6 Bale of Calicut, 73, 77 Camlot, 114 detention of Portuguese, 84–88 Camões, Luis Vaz de, xi–xii, 25, 26 Barbosa, Duarte de, 58 Canary Islands, 1, 2, 33, 161 178 index

Cannanur, 69, 134, 135, 167 Comendas, 8, 10 Cantino, Alberto, 163 Compia (Cannanur), 99 Cão, Diogo, 17, 28 Convent of the Holy Cross, Coimbra, Cape of Good Hope, 1, 3, 4, 11, 13, 44, 19 161, 164 Copper, 113 doubled on outward voyage, 38–39 Coromandel coast, 114 on return voyage, 110 Correa, Ayres, 12 Cape Verde Islands, 3, 34, 164 Correia, Gaspar de Capua, 70, 74 background, 128 Caravels, 1–2, 11 and command of 1497 fl eet, 4–6, 9 Casa da Mina, 16, 132 describes arrival and reception of Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de Vasco da Gama in Lisbon, background, 137 128–36 and command of 1497 fl eet, 4–6, 9 manpower on fl eet, 16 and fi nal stages of voyage, 137–38 and ‘mutiny’ on fl eet, 24 and journal manuscript, 19, 22 role of convict-exiles, 14 and manpower of 1497 fl eet, 16 Costa, D. Jorge da, 140–41 Castile, 6, 7, 10, 42, 71, 150 Costa Paiva, António da, 19 Ceuta, Covilhã, Pedro da, 3 captured by Portuguese, 1 letter from Cairo, 3, 16, 51 Ceylon, 98, 115, 141, 150–151, 153 Covilhã, Pedro da Charles VIII, king of France chaplain of fl eet, 14, 20, 126 captures Portuguese ship (1492), Cranganor (Quorongolez), 66, 114 7–8 China, 147–148 Degredados, 14, 19 Christ, Order of, 6 Debate on authorship of roteiro, 19–25 and 1497 fl eet, 11 Dias, Bartolomeu, 28 Christians, 23 and fl eet of Vasco da Gama, 34 at Mombasa, 60–61, 63 outfi ts 1497 fl eet, 11–12 ‘church’ described at Calicut, 75–76 rounds African Cape (1487–1488), 2, ‘discovered’ by Vasco da Gama, 139, 8–10, 17, 44 141, 144, 152 stay at São Brás Bay, 40 Indian ‘Christians’ at Malindi, 66–67 Dias, Diogo Chouparria, 8 escrivão of São Gabriel, 13, 20, Cloves, 150, 152 125 Cochin, 167 held hostage in Calicut, 91–94 rivalry with Calicut, 82 sent as envoy to Samorin, 90 Coelho, Nicholau, 125, 157 Dias, Pêro, 20, 127 at Anjediva, 102 Diogo, D., duke of Viseu, 6 captain of Berrio, 14, 33, 34 meeting ashore with sultan of Egypt, 98, 113, 119, 153 Mozambique, 53–54 Elattūr River, 75 reaches Lisbon before Vasco da Elephants Gama, 111, 137 described, 118–119, 149, 154–155 separated from fl eet near São Brás Escolar, Pêro (Escobar) Bay, 43 pilot of Berrio, 14, 107, 125 strikes sandbar at Mozambique, 49, Estado da India, 13 50 Esteves, Pêro, 20, 127 Coimbra, João de Évora 7, 10 pilot of São Rafael, 13, 20, 56, 125 Columbus, Christopher, 7 Falcão, Luiz Figueiredo de, 28 reception in Lisbon (1493), 3 Faria e Figueredo, Francisco, 20, voyage of 1492 compared with fi rst 126 voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1 Faria e Figueredo, Pedro, 20, 126