Note 9 — THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA.
William Julius Mickle translation
Having named the Mecon, or Meekhaun, a river of Cochin China, he says—
Este recebera placido, e brando, No seu regaço o Canto, que molhado, etc.
Literally thus: "On his gentle hospitable bosom (sic brando poeticé) shall he receive the song, wet from woful unhappy shipwreck, escaped from destroying tempests, from ravenous dangers, the effect of the unjust sentence upon him, whose lyre shall be more renowned than enriched." When Camoëns was commissary, he visited the islands of Ternate, Timor, etc., described in the Lusiad.