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

Note 18 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3]

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

Camoens confirms the author's statement of the flourishing condition of Mombaza, and of its devastation by the Portuguese. Canto x, stanzas 26, 27—

Ambos darâo com braço forte armado A Quiloa fertil aspero castigo, Fazendo nella Rei leal e humano, Deitado forá o perfido Tyranno.

Tambem farâo Mombaça, que se arrea De casas sumptuosas e edificios, Co'o ferro e fogo seu queimada e fea Em pago dos passados maleficios.

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