THE

COMMENTARIES

OF THE GREAT

AFONSO DALBOQUERQUE,

SECOND VICEROY OF INDIA.

TRANSLATED FROM THE

PORTUGUESE EDITION OF 1774,

With Notes and an Entroduction,

BY

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.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

M.DCCC.LXXVII.

THE RIGHT HON. SIR DAVID DUNDAS, PRESIDENT.

ADMIRAL C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B.
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B., F.R.S.)

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, C.B., F.R. S., SEC. R.G.S., HONORARY SECRETARY.