A Journal of First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, translated by E. G. Ravenstein

About this eBook

Translator

Ravenstein, Ernest Georg, 1834-1913

Title

A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46440

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46440

Release Date

July 29, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF VASCO DA GAMA, 1497-1499.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.A JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF VASCO DA GAMA IN 1497-99. — [ Calecut. ] — [ The Voyage Home. ] — [THE KINGDOMS TO THE SOUTH OF CALECUT.] — About Elephants. — Prices at Alexandria. 262 — [A VOCABULARY OF MALAYALAM.]
5. 5.APPENDICES.
6. 6.APPENDIX A. — TWO LETTERS OF KING MANUEL, 1499. — I.—King Manuel’s Letter to the King and Queen of Castile, July 1499. — II.—King Manuel to the Cardinal Protector, August 28th, 1499.
7. 7.APPENDIX B. — GIROLAMO SERNIGI’S LETTERS ON VASCO DA GAMA’S FIRST VOYAGE. — Girolamo Sernigi’s First Letter to a Gentleman at Florence. 288 — Girolamo Sernigi’s Second Letter to a Gentleman of Florence. 368
8. 8.APPENDIX C. — THREE PORTUGUESE ACCOUNTS OF VASCO DA GAMA’S FIRST VOYAGE (1608-1646). — I.— Jornal das Viagens dos Portuguezes as Indias, 1608. — II.—Luiz de Figueiredo Falcão, 1612. — III.—Pedro Barretto de Rezende, 1646.
9. 9.APPENDIX D. — VASCO DA GAMA’S SHIPS AND THEIR EQUIPMENT.
10. 10.APPENDIX E. — MUSTER-ROLL OF VASCO DA GAMA’S FLEET.
11. 11.APPENDIX F. — THE VOYAGE.
12. 12.APPENDIX G. — EARLY MAPS ILLUSTRATING VASCO DA GAMA’S FIRST VOYAGE. — LIST OF PLACE-NAMES.
13. 13.APPENDIX H. — HONOURS AND REWARDS BESTOWED UPON VASCO DA GAMA, 1499-1524. 473
14. 14.FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.INDEX AND GLOSSARY.

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