Part I

of this work contains a succinct account of the doings of the Viceroys of India up to 1634, and gives portraits of all of them; Parts II and III contain plans of the Portuguese forts between the Cape of Good Hope and China, with descriptions; whilst the Appendix furnishes an account of the “armadas” or fleets which were sent to India up to 1605.

Dr. Walter de Gray Birch (_Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque_, i, pp. vii-xiii) has given an account of the MS. of this work existing in the British Museum.

[Illustration: Vasco da Gama as Viceroy.

(_After Correa’s portrait in the Palacio do Governo, at Goa._)]

If this valuable document should ever be printed, it will be necessary to collate the copies existing in London, Paris, and probably also elsewhere, for they are not in all respects identical. Port. 36 seems to me to deserve the preference as far as respects Part I , but