The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
Translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774

This 1877 translation of a sixteenth-century account describes the Portuguese conquest of Goa early in 1510.

Afonso de Albuquerque (Author), Walter de Gray Birch (Translated by)

9781108011457, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

400 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 colour illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 2.3 x 14 cm, 0.51 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volumes 53, 55, 62 and 69 of the series contain the English translation of The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, translated and edited by Walter de Grey Birch. Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) was a Portuguese naval officer and nobleman whose successful military campaigns helped establish Portugal's colonies in India. Volume 2 contains an account of his imprisonment in 1509 as a result of political rivalries, and his first conquest of Goa in February 1510.

Preface
Chronology of Part II
Title to the edition of 1774 Part II
Commentaries of Afonso Dalboquerque Part II.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]