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

Note 283 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3] (continued 4)

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

Guenga, Ortelius; it should be Gunga.

"Ganges, no qual os seus habitadores Morrem banhados, tendo por certeza, Que inda que sejão grandes peccadores, Esta agua sancta os lava, e da pureza."—Lusiad. x, 121.

Return to DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3] (continued 4)