For the “Great Constable,” Egas and Fuas, see Cantos IV 23, and VIII 13, 17. ↩
D. Joam III and the Emperor Charles Quint. ↩
End of exordium: narrative begins. ↩
Sertorius. ↩
Madagascar. ↩
Here Cabo-das-Correntes. ↩
African daggers and short swords. ↩
Mohammed Rasúl Allah. ↩
Pronounced Kílwá. ↩
Palaeologus, AD 1453. ↩
Arabic. ↩
The Parcae. ↩
Camões had studied the ground. ↩
Arab. for canoe. ↩
A perfect sketch. ↩
Muslims. ↩
The “puer aeternus,” “Deus bi-mater.” ↩
The five zones of Parmenides. ↩
Low Lat. Cendalum = thin silk. ↩
Subaudi, “so hapless.” ↩
Christianity. ↩
Alluding to Da Gama’s “Sea-quake.” ↩
Historical (?) ↩
Islet off the Cutch coast, pronounced Dyú. ↩
Duarte Pacheco Pereira. ↩
Antony and Cleopatra. ↩
Magalhaens (Magellan), Canto X, 138. ↩
Melinde nearer the Line (S. lat. 3° 9′). ↩
Sol entering Taurus, Easter Sunday, April 5, 1498. ↩
Escarlata, a woollen cloth. ↩
The “dragoman,” Fernam Martins. ↩
Our “assegai.” ↩
Tangier. ↩
Tanais, the Don. ↩
Whence Adam (“red man”). ↩
Ruthenians = Eastern Galicians. ↩
Amisius or Amisia (Ems). ↩
Borussians = Prussians. ↩
Harz and Erzgebirge. ↩
Hod. Vardari or Bradi. ↩
Padua. ↩
Seine. ↩
Garonne. ↩
Viriatus = vir, vires, virtus (paronomasia). ↩
De Bouillon, crowned first king of Jerusalem, AD 1099. ↩
The favourite figure correctio. ↩
Valdevez, or Campo da Matança, AD 1128 (Canto IV 16). ↩
I.e., of festal garb (Canto VIII 14). ↩
Battle of Ourique, AD 1139. ↩
Isma’il = Ishmael. ↩
I.e., disclose Thyself, show a sign. ↩
The conqueror’s custom. ↩
St. Irene, Sanctarem, Santarem. ↩
Second Crusade, AD 1147. ↩
Giraldo Sem-Pavor, who took Evora. ↩
Burnt by the Moors. ↩
Syrians. ↩
The Ararat of fiction. ↩
Cape St. Vincent. ↩
The Guadalquivir. ↩
African Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar. ↩
The Emperor of Marocco. ↩
Coimbra. ↩
The Guadiana river. ↩
The Battle of the “Horns of Hattin.” ↩
Sic in orig. ↩
By D. Roderick the Goth. ↩
Begins vehemently—ex abrupto. ↩
The Lixus river, now Al-kús of Marocco. ↩
Battle of Tarifa or Rio Salado, AD 1340. ↩
Fourth of Portugal and eleventh of Castile. ↩
I.e., Portuguese Afonso. ↩
“Peace with honour.” ↩
Writing his name upon the tree-trunks and leaves. ↩
In orig., Ministros, i.e. of wrath (?) ↩
The famous Fonte-dos-Amores, near Coimbra. ↩
E bem parece—ambiguous. ↩
Bryx or Brigus, whence Bragança. ↩
Isla de Leon = Gades, Cadiz. ↩
The Spanish Cuenca, concha, a shell. ↩
Afonso I, son of D. Henrique (Canto iii, 35). ↩
The Castles were added in AD 1252. ↩
Of Abrantes town; battle of Aljubarrota, AD 1385. ↩
Sol in Libra. ↩
Cape Rocca-de-Cintra. ↩
Pompey, Canto III, 62. ↩
Numidian. ↩
Montes-Sete-Irmãos, near Tangier. ↩
Around the Royal banner. ↩
Battle of Valverde. ↩
Canto III, 101. ↩
“Saint” Ferdinand. ↩
Octavius. ↩
Pompey’s tomb on Mount Casius (Baalzephon). ↩
Explorers’ epitaph! ↩
That of the Moon. ↩
The soldiers and sailors then being different services. ↩
I.e., the ships. ↩
Old chapel of Belem (Bethlehem). ↩
The “Old Man of Belem” is the people personified. ↩
Sol entering Leo (Northern Tropic). ↩
The glorious Brazil. ↩
Senegalese of “Sanagá” (Senegal). ↩
The Cape Verd Islands. ↩
Alias Gorgades: Fernando Po, etc. ↩
Not in Camões. “S’a Leone,” August, 1874.
“What sights this lovely scene shall soon unbless,
the simiad Negro swaying Africk strand;
inhuman humans, slaves in Freedom’s dress;
Ah me! what rude and wild and couthless band:
Females with ne’er a ‘No,’ males dumb to ‘Yes,’
lust, superstition, ign’orance curse the land;
fair dwelling-places where the foulest dwell;
the Blackman’s Heaven, and the White Man’s Hell.”
N. lat. 11° south of Sierra Leone. ↩
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