Note 484 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 3)
Reading edition
ff. 248 v.-249 v. give a very curious description of Ireland: tam remota de nossa conversação e metida debaixo do Polo Arctico. Brito had not inherited Barros’ knowledge of geography and confuses Ireland with Iceland, but is far richer in fables, as these pages delightfully prove.