Note 449 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 2)

He himself describes with great detail and pathos the wrecks of the ships N. Senhora da Barca (VII. viii. 1), Garça (VII. viii. 12), S. Paulo (VII. ix. 16), Santiago (X. vii. 1), as well as that of Sepulveda (Dec. VI. ix. 21, 22). In his account of the loss of the S. Thomé (which was printed in the Historia Tragico-Maritima, in the Vida de D. Paulo de Lima, and no doubt in the lost eleventh Decada), the separation of D. Joana de Mendoça from her child is one of the most tantalizing and touching incidents ever penned.