Note 457 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)

Fui hum dos seus escrivães que com elle andei tres annos (ii. 46). Elsewhere (i. 2) he says that he went to India moço de pouca idade sixteen years after the discovery of India. 1512 was fourteen years after the actual discovery (1498), but might be counted the sixteenth year from 1497.