Note 452 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)

As the fleets grew, long catalogues of the captains’ names were perhaps inevitable. They are certainly out of place in a biography, but Couto’s Vida de D. Paulo de Lima Pereira (1765) is really a collection of those passages from the Decadas which bear on the life of Couto’s old friend, a fidalgo muito pera tudo. As far as chapter 32 it is told in words similar to or identical with those of Decada X. Chapter 32 corresponds with the beginning of the lost Decada XI.