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

This 1880 translation of a sixteenth-century account describes the Portuguese conquests of Goa and Malacca in 1510–11.

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

9781108011549, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

388 pages, 1 b/w illus. 2 colour illus. 3 maps
21.6 x 2.2 x 14 cm, 0.49 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 3 contains an account of his second, successful conquest of Goa in November 1510 and the capture of Malacca in 1511.

Introduction
Chronology of Part III
Title to the edition of 1774 Part III
Title of the chapters contained in the third part
Commentaries of Afonso Dalboquerque Part III.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]