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

Note 273 — 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

"Olha em Ceylão, que o monte se alevanta Tanto, que as nuvens passa, ou a vista engana Os naturaes tem por cousa sancta, Por a pedra em que està á pegada humana." Lusiadas, canto x, 136.

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