A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

Note 158 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3] (continued 2)

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

Rumys. Turks are so called east of Turkey. These Turks may have served in the Egyptian fleet, but did not belong to the Ottoman forces, as Egypt was not united to the Ottoman Empire till later in 1517.

Traz este vem Noronha, cujo auspicio De Dio os Rumes feros affugenta, Dio, que o peito e bellico exercicio De Antonio da Sylveira bem sustenta. Camoens, canto x, stanza 72.

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