WORKS ISSUED BY

The Hakluyt Society.

THE COMMENTARIES OF THE GREAT

AFONSO DALBOQUERQUE.

No. LV.

LIBRARY

OF THE

UNIVERSITY

CALIFORNIA

WALTER DE GRAY BIRCH, F.R.S.L.,

SENIOR ASSISTANT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH
MUSEUM; HONORARY LIBRARIAN OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF
LITERATURE; HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH

ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ETC.

VOL. II.

"Ut, quantum ad cognitionem pertinet rerum, etiam praeteritis saeculis vixisse
videamur."
."--QUINTILIAN, Instit. Orator., xii, 4.