Note 457 — BOOK VI[427]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Luiz de Camoëns (1517 or 1525-1579), author of the Lusiad which treats of the exploits of Vasco da Gama, spent many years in India and in exile in Macao, where he wrote his principal poem. On his return from banishment, he was wrecked off the coast of Cochin China, where he is said to have lost all he possessed, except the manuscript of the Lusiad.—T.