Note 514 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 3)

Afonso de Albuquerque mentions another surgeon Mestre Afonso in India in his time, i.e. half a century earlier. The value of the Itinerario consists in its having been written as a diary on the journey, and its author, perhaps thinking of Mendez Pinto, says hee hũu grande descuido de homens que fazem semelhantes viagens e as nom escreuem ... porque a memoria nom pode ser capaz de tamanha cousa e tantas particularidades (p. 82).