A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s1: Letter (? to the Historian Barros) Which Accompanied the Chronicles When Sent from India to Portugal About the Year 1537 A.D.
A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c21.s1
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Letter (? to the Historian Barros) Which Accompanied the Chronicles When Sent from India to Portugal About the Year 1537 A.D.
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SINCE I have lived till now in this city (? Goa), it seemed necessary to do what your Honour desired of me, namely, to search for men who had formerly been in Bisnaga; for I know that no one goes there without bringing away his quire of paper written about its affairs. Thus I obtained this summary from one Domingos Paes, who goes there, and who was at Bisnaga in the time of Crisnarão when Cristovão de Figueiredo was there. I obtained another from Fernão Nuniz, who was there three years trading in horses (which did not prove remunerative). Since one man cannot tell everything—one relating some things which another does not—I send both the summaries made by them, namely, one in the time of Crisnarão, as I have said, and the other sent from there six months since. I desire to do this because your honour can gather what is useful to you from both, and because you will thus give the more credit to some things in the chronicle of the kings of Bisnaga, since they conform one to the other. The copy of the summary which he began to make¹ when he first went to the kingdom of Bisnaga is as follows :—
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¹ "He" here is Domingo Paes.