The Lusiads

Thomé. ↩

Saint Elmo’s fire. ↩

The moon moving faster than the sun. ↩

Angra de Sancta Helena, S. lat. 32° 40′. ↩

Tropic of Capricorn. ↩

In orig., bando, applied to birds. ↩

Of Pedr’ Alvares Cabral. ↩

Bartholomeu Dias. ↩

D. Francisco de Almeida. ↩

D. Manoel de Souza. ↩

Angra de Sam Braz (St. Blaise), 70 leagues E. of the Cape. ↩

Sancta Cruz of Bart. Dias. ↩

Off Cabo das Correntes. ↩

Rio-dos-Reis; twelfth day O.S., Jan. 9. ↩

The Cuama-Zambeze mouth. ↩

I.e. to south-east. ↩

The Archangel Raphael. ↩

Scurvy, first poetically described here. ↩

Cleopatra (says Faria y Sousa). ↩

Cleopatra. ↩

Ino and Melicerta (Leucothea and Palaemon). ↩

Glaucus, the fisherman. ↩

Ambergris. ↩

The Argonauts. ↩

Aeolus. ↩

Quarto da prima = 6 to 9 p.m. ↩

John of Gaunt. ↩

= Macrinus, the “little lean one.” ↩

Bruges. ↩

River of Bactria. ↩

Venus rises, the storm falls, and India appears. ↩

Mount Delli, near Cananor. ↩

The Church. ↩

Henry VIII ↩

Saladin. ↩

François I ↩

River of Tripoli. ↩

Carolus Magnus and St. Louis. ↩

Poetic prophecy of the coming kingdom, Byzantium. ↩

Imaus = Híma-álaya = Snow-house. ↩

The Samiry Rajah of Malabar. ↩

Perimál Princes of Malayálam. ↩

Pythagoras the Philosophos, not Sophos. ↩

Kot-wál, captain of fort. ↩

Semiramis. ↩

Ruh Allah (the Breath of Allah). ↩

Hezekiah. ↩

Spurius Posthumius. ↩

Slain at the capture of Lisbon. ↩

Now Saint. ↩

“Sans-peur,” who captured Evora. ↩

D. Pedro Fernandez de Castro. ↩

Grand Master of Sant’Iago (Stanza 26). ↩

Fernam Martinez de Santarem, Vasco Yannes and Gonçalo Ribeiro (Stanza 27). ↩

Paio Rodriguez Marinho. ↩

P. de Menezes, first Governor of Ceuta. ↩

His son, D. Duarte, who saved D. Afonso V ↩

D. Joam I ↩

Southern Constellations. ↩

Ursa Major. ↩

The well Zemzem. ↩

Of Egypt. ↩

I.e., the capstan. ↩

Mace. ↩

The Moluccas. ↩

Asia. ↩

The Dove-nymph. ↩

Φιλαυτία, egoism opposed to altruism. ↩

Myrrha. ↩

Ninus and Amnon. ↩

The peach (Malus persica). ↩

Persia, famed for tapestry. ↩

Narcissus. ↩

Anemone (Adonis’ blood). ↩

Marjoram. ↩

And thou shalt notice at the end of all
twixt ear and sickle how uprears the wall.

Petrarch

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The Pacific, west of “Temistitam” (Tenochtitlan, Mexico). ↩

The Magic Mirror (Canto VIII 45). ↩

Da Gama’s second voyage. ↩

Trimumpára, Rajah of Cochin. ↩

“Conqueror of the Indies.” ↩

At the mouth of the Cochin Backwater. ↩

Rajahship south of Cochin. ↩

The Samorim. ↩

Dom Francisco d’Almeida, first Viceroy. ↩

Lucan, VI 251, etc. ↩

Chief Harbour of Bijapur. ↩

Islet in the Gulf of Cutch, governed by Malik Iyáz. ↩

Mir Husayn, the Turk. ↩

Not in Camões. ↩

Madagascar. ↩

On Ormuz or Hormuz Isle. ↩

Bahrayn Island. ↩

Nov. 25, 1510. ↩

The Malay “crease.” ↩

Alludes to the hanging of Ruy Dias. ↩

Succeeded Soares, AD 1518. ↩

Hod. Masawwah Island. ↩

D. Duarte, AD 1522. ↩

D. Henrique, AD 1525. ↩

D. Pedro, AD 1526. ↩

Java. ↩

Lope Vaz S., the Usurper. ↩

The Muslim Admiral. ↩

D. Nuno, AD 1529. ↩

Bahádur Sháh, King of Cambay. ↩

D. Garcia, AD 1539. ↩

Estevam da Gama, AD 1540. ↩

Villegagnon, expelled by Martim (Martinho) Afonso de Souza, chosen AD 1542. ↩

Now Sadashivgarh. ↩

D. Joam de Castro (AD 1545) worthily ends the Viceroys. ↩

Commanding Diu fort. ↩

Rahádur Sháh of Gujarát. ↩

Elephants. ↩

Adil Sháh of Bijápúr. ↩

The Solar System (Ptolemeian). ↩