. Burnell,
Mangalore, 1880, p. 131.]

Had the Brahman poet known Albuquerque, or the greatest of his
successors, he would have praised also their valour, their tenacity,
and their disinterested unselfishness. But striking is the contrast
between Albuquerque and even the greatest of his successors. His
contemporaries felt this, and his son, in the dedication of the
second edition of the _Commentaries_ to King Sebastian, in 1574,
gives an anecdote which illustrates this general opinion.

'I shall say no more,' he says, 'than tell you what a soldier said
who always accompanied him in war. This man being very old and
staying in the city of Goa, when he reflected upon the disorder of
Indian affairs, went with a stick in his hand to the chapel of
Affonso de Albuquerque, and, striking the sepulchre wherein he was
lying buried, cried out:--"Oh! great captain, thou hast done me all
the harm thou couldst have done, but I cannot deny that thou hast
been the greatest conqueror and sufferer of troubles that the world
has known: arise thou, for what thou hast gained is like to be
lost!"'

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INDEX

Proper names preceded by 'da,' 'de,' 'do' are indexed under the
succeeding initial letter.

ABBAS SHAH took Ormuz, 204.

ABD-EL-KHURI rocks, Sodre wrecked on, 30.

ABREU, Antonio de, explored the Spice Islands, 109.

ABYSSINIA, Covilhao in, 23:
interest taken in, 127:
Albuquerque's schemes about, 128:
Christovao da Gama killed in, 184.

ACENHEIRO, reply of Affonso V to, 45.

ACHINESE repulsed from Malacca, 197, 199.

ADEN, Albuquerque ordered to take, 94:
its importance, 126, 127:
Albuquerque repulsed from, 127:
Egyptians fail to take, 171:
offered to Soares, 172:
taken by the Turks, 181.

AFFONSO V, King of Portugal, expeditions of, to Morocco, 19:
Albuquerque educated at his Court, 44:
served under in Morocco, 45:
character of, 45.

AFFONSO SANCHES, ancestor of Albuquerque, 42.

AFFONSO, Master, the physician, attends Albuquerque's deathbed, 141.

AFRICA, Portuguese discoveries on the coast of, 21-23:
settlements on the south-east coast, 34:
exploration in the interior, 200.

AHMAD, Rais, Minister of Ormuz, 136:
killed by Albuquerque's orders, 137.

AHMADABAD, Kings of. _See_ GUJARAT.

AKBAR kindly received Portuguese missionaries, 191.

ALBERGARIA. _See_ SOARES.

ALBUQUERQUE, castle of, 42.

ALBUQUERQUE, Affonso de, first voyage to India, 3