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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY OF PART IV
- TITLE TO THE EDITION OF 1774—PART IV
- TITLES OF THE CHAPTERS CONTAINED IN THE FOURTH PART
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- CHAPTER XXXII
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- CHAPTER XL
- CHAPTER XLI
- CHAPTER XLII
- CHAPTER XLIII
- CHAPTER XLIV
- CHAPTER XLV
- CHAPTER XLVI
- CHAPTER XLVII
- CHAPTER XLVIII
- CHAPTER XLIX
- CHAPTER L
- APPENDIX A Title-page, Dedicatory Epistle, and Colophon of the First Edition of the Commentaries, from the Unique Copy in the Sunderland Library
- APPENDIX B Pedigree of Afonso Dalboquerque, and Genealogical Notes of the Family. Lansdowne MS. 189
- APPENDIX C Description of Lopo Soarez, Successor of Afonso Dalboquerque, from Pedeo Baeretto de Resende's Livro do Estado da India Oriental, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 13b
- APPENDIX D Account of Curiate. Descripsam da Fortalleza de Curiate que he a Primeyra do Estreyto de Ormuz antes de Mascate, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 115
- APPENDIX E Description of Ormus, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 157
- APPENDIX F Description of Bassora, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 161
- APPENDIX G Description of Sinde, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 167b
- APPENDIX H Description of Chaul, Sloane MS. 197, f. 236
- APPENDIX I Description of the Fortress of Onor, Sloane MS. 197, f. 285
- APPENDIX J Description of the Maldive Islands, Sloane MS. 197, f. 377
- INDEX
- GLOSSARY
- Plate section
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY OF PART IV
- TITLE TO THE EDITION OF 1774—PART IV
- TITLES OF THE CHAPTERS CONTAINED IN THE FOURTH PART
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- CHAPTER XXXII
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- CHAPTER XL
- CHAPTER XLI
- CHAPTER XLII
- CHAPTER XLIII
- CHAPTER XLIV
- CHAPTER XLV
- CHAPTER XLVI
- CHAPTER XLVII
- CHAPTER XLVIII
- CHAPTER XLIX
- CHAPTER L
- APPENDIX A Title-page, Dedicatory Epistle, and Colophon of the First Edition of the Commentaries, from the Unique Copy in the Sunderland Library
- APPENDIX B Pedigree of Afonso Dalboquerque, and Genealogical Notes of the Family. Lansdowne MS. 189
- APPENDIX C Description of Lopo Soarez, Successor of Afonso Dalboquerque, from Pedeo Baeretto de Resende's Livro do Estado da India Oriental, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 13b
- APPENDIX D Account of Curiate. Descripsam da Fortalleza de Curiate que he a Primeyra do Estreyto de Ormuz antes de Mascate, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 115
- APPENDIX E Description of Ormus, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 157
- APPENDIX F Description of Bassora, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 161
- APPENDIX G Description of Sinde, British Museum, Sloane MS. 197, f. 167b
- APPENDIX H Description of Chaul, Sloane MS. 197, f. 236
- APPENDIX I Description of the Fortress of Onor, Sloane MS. 197, f. 285
- APPENDIX J Description of the Maldive Islands, Sloane MS. 197, f. 377
- INDEX
- GLOSSARY
- Plate section
Summary
Of the ambassadors whom the Xeque Ismael sent to the King of Cambay, and to the Hidalcão; and of the origin of their embassies.
Inasmuch as the Xeque Ismael was very greatly desirous of drawing all the Kings of India over to friendship with him, and of persuading them to follow his religious tenets, he frequently sent his ambassadors, in pursuance of this policy, to the King of Cambay, and to the Çabayo, for he knew that if these two, being of superior power and great estate, could only be persuaded, all other rulers would yield without demur to that which he wished to accomplish. Hence it was, that in the year '13, when Afonso Dalboquerque penetrated the straits of the Red Sea, the Xeque again sent his ambassadors to the same kings as before, each one of them being equipped with a hundred saddle horses, and with very richly-furnished tents for their lodging, and silver services of plate for their tables. The instructions which were carried by these ambassadors were to the effect that the kings must accept his cap, [and so acknowledge his supreme power], and cause the especial book of prayer which he used to be read in their mosques.
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- The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of IndiaTranslated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, pp. 82 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1884