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

Note 48 — DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIES AND COUNTRIES ON THE SEABORD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN IN 1514. [3]

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

Probably Admiral Hussein had heard of Monçaide, the spy of Vasco de Gama, of whom Camoens says:—

Estava para dar ao Gama aviso E merecer por isso o Paraiso. Este, de quem se os Mouros naô guardavam, Por ser Mouro, como ellos, antes era Participante em quanto machinavam. Canto ix, stanzas 5 and 6.

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