“Believe me…things here are of great substance”: Noonan, p. 196.
“There were rooms full of sandalwood”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 246.
“held and secure in the king’s name”: ibid., p. 249.
“The captain-major with some of the men…completely unconscious”: Noonan, pp. 199–200.
“And so we set out…awaiting God’s mercy”: ibid., p. 200.
“and so they stayed with their souls in their mouths”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 269.
“and touching bottom…and many other reasons”: Noonan, p. 201.
“We found ourselves in great trouble”: ibid., p. 202.
“made their way to Cochin”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 270.
“I heard [him] say”: ibid., p. 247.
“was lost a greater wealth of gold and jewels”: ibid., p. 269.
“a great map drawn by a Javanese pilot”: CPR, pp. 148–49.
21 THE WAX BULLET
“Those who wanted to take revenge”: CPR, p. 98.
“I am fifty years old”: ibid., p. 21.
“feel free to do as they please…yet you abandon India”: ibid., pp. 24–25.
“Does Your Highness know the consequences”: ibid., p. 27.
“two fine robes…and make walls”: ibid., p. 57.
“where there is a great flow of water…They are all Christians”: ibid., p. 41.
“And again I come back to saying”: ibid., p. 35.
“Sire, put your trust in good fortresses”: ibid., p. 31.
“Kings and lords”: ibid., p. 59.
“Places here, controlled by Your Highness”: ibid., p. 53.
“Sire…to make fortresses requires planning”: ibid., p. 21.
“Your Highness should not ignore the things that I say”: ibid., p. 44.
“I fear that you don’t want to favor”: ibid., p. 23.
“I am kept down…in the affairs of India”: ibid., pp. 49–50.
“to destroy the trade of Mecca”: ibid.
“taking the main centers of this trade from the Muslims”: ibid., p. 22.
“Strongly support Goa…[It is] certain to become peaceful”: ibid., pp. 59–60.
“Sire, it would greatly please me”: ibid., p. 62.
“With God’s help…if there is no treachery”: ibid., p. 59.
“Sire, now it seems you have decided”: Sanceau (1936), p. 199.
“I often upbraided them”: ibid., p. 202.
“a phalanx well ordered…this year from Portugal”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 304.
“bore their sufferings with much patience”: Sanceau (1936), p. 207.
“the governor has turned the key”: Bouchon (1992), p. 191.
“You aim to lay your hands on their trade”: ibid., pp. 220–21.
“this goat by the neck”: Rodrigues and Devezas (2008), p. 269.
“piled up in the holds of ships”: Lisboa Quinhentista, p. 17.
“that went in front of him”: ibid., p. 22.
22 “ALL THE RICHES OF THE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS”
“surrounded by bare rock”: CPR, p. 217.
“As our carracks were big…the task of fighting”: ibid., p. 168.
“it was not my practice…to destroy a stretch of the wall with gunpowder”: ibid., pp. 169–71.
“The site of the city at dawn…many round towers”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 337.
“which grieved me considerably…and badly injured the men”: CPR, pp. 173–74.
“he refused to enter”: Castanheda, vol. 1, p. 752.
“I didn’t know whether to rally the captains”: CPR, p. 177.
“Sir, help us, otherwise we’re all going to die”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 342.
“I’m not the man to flee death down a rope”: ibid., p. 343.
“so that they shouldn’t be left”: Castanheda, vol. 1, p. 755.
“so aghast at losing the city in this way”: ibid.
“What I can say to Your Highness”: CPR, p. 179.
“I don’t dare to say more”: ibid., p. 174.
“I think that if I had reconnoitered Aden first”: ibid., p. 217.
“they clearly perceived that they were going to die”: Castanheda, vol. 1, p. 758.
“only a cannon shot wide”: Correia (1860), vol. 1, p. 758.
“We arrived at the mouth of the Straits”: CPR, p. 182.
“always in sight of Prester John’s lands”: ibid., p. 183.
“no storms, only strong blasts of hot wind”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, pp. 345–46.
“And there they sat”: ibid., p. 347.
“we found plenty of suitable rock…a great abundance of good fish”: CPR, pp. 194–95.
“he was taking them to die”: Castanheda, vol. 1, p. 761.
“after only two or three fits of fever”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 348.
“while we were anchored in that place”: CPR, p. 190.
“the coasts behind it are ruled by Prester John”: ibid., pp. 222–23.
“I now have full information”: ibid., p. 201.
“he died very poor”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 348.
“After Hussain left India”: CPR, pp. 197–98.
“I can assure Your Highness”: ibid., p. 192.
“they were presented dressed in mail tunics”: Ibn Iyas, p. 289.
“ ‘We won’t go unless we get a bonus’ ”: ibid., p. 291.
“the audacity of the Europeans…goods have been unloaded at Jeddah”: ibid., p. 335.
“to send reinforcements as quickly as possible”: ibid., p. 356.
“too weak or stricken with venereal disease”: ibid., p. 424.
“The sultan’s position is very weak”: CPR, p. 225.
“It seems to me that if you make yourself powerful”: CPR, pp. 221–22.
“I have been told that he greatly desires”: ibid., p. 201.
“your fleet can get to Suez”: ibid., p. 224.
“The business of India we will leave behind”: ibid., p. 223.
23 THE LAST VOYAGE
“Your Highness blames me”: Sanceau (1936), p. 242.
“Men who are well paid”: ibid., p. 246.
“Do you know that you change your policy”: ibid., p. 245.
“with one hand upon my beard”: ibid., p. 232.
“The governor used to get up…as his secretary”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, pp. 364–65.
“Whenever I receive a petition”: Sanceau (1936), p. 247.
“So long as I am present all goes well”: ibid., p. 232.
“the sugar turn to poison”: Bouchon (1988), p. 81.
“They would not know how to buy”: Sanceau (1936), p. 243.
“When they have nothing to say…my white hairs”: Bouchon (1992), p. 243.
“that he was already just a sack of straw”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 398.
“that it seemed that the ships were on fire”: ibid., p. 408.
“God save the Lord Governor”: ibid., p. 409.
“he had no hope unless”: ibid., p. 420.
“that could be defended against all the powers against it”: ibid., p. 422.
“he would give the governor his treasure”: ibid., p. 423.
“For the Great Lord who commands”: Sanceau (1936), p. 271.
“It was agreed no one should carry arms”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 431.
“Lord Sultan Turan, you are lord and king”: ibid., p. 436.
“the Muslims remained extremely frightened”: ibid., p. 438.
“You get doctor’s pay…benches of those galleys”: ibid., pp. 440–41.
“dispenses justice and commands on sea and land”: Castanheda, vol. 1, p. 857.
“First of the First, Captain of many Captains”: Sanceau (1936), p. 281.
“to draw him from life”: Castanheda, vol. 1, p. 858.
“With this achievement…we shall have settled everything”: Sanceau (1936), p. 280.
“he was old and very wasted…which ma
ke me feel alive?”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 452.
“I cannot restrain my tears…set sail for India”: ibid., p. 456.
“very confidentially told him things”: Barros, Década II, part 2, p. 491.
“What do you think of that?”: Correia (1860), vol. 2, p. 458.
“Sire, I do not write to Your Highness”: Sanceau (1936), p. 296.
“Afonso de Albuquerque, Friend!”: ibid., p. 299.
EPILOGUE: “THEY NEVER STOP IN ONE PLACE”
“Enough for us to know”: Boorstin, p. 145.
“And there we saw Prester John”: Alvares (1881), pp. 202–3.
“the most sad and miserable tragedy ever”: Rodrigues and Devezas (2008), p. 284.
“Why does not the king of Castile”: Roteiro da Viagem, p. 51.
“So long as they are upheld by justice”: Sanceau (1936), p. 286.
“The ship’s cargo consisted of precious treasures”: Rodrigues and Devezas (2008), p. 329.
“pen in one hand, a sword in the other”: Camões, p. 154.
“Had there been more of the world”: Pyne, pp. 18–19.
“a very white and beautiful people”: Suckling, p. 280.
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