[391] The preceding dates agree with those in the _Journal_, but the anchorage, two leagues from Calecut (see p. 48) was only reached on May 20th, and the stay at or off Calecut was certainly much longer than the seventy-four days allowed by Rezende. In fact, seventy-four days would only carry us from May 20th to August 1st. [392] That is, the mouth of the Tagus. [393] A sailing vessel occasionally propelled by oars. [394] Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, _Estudos sobre navios Portuguezes_, Lisbon (Ac. Real), 1892, p. 58. [395] A pilot, Fernando Rodriques Berrio, resided at Lagos in 1502, and there were other members of the same family (Varnhagen). [396] Goes, _Chronica do Rei D. Emanuel_, 1790, I, p. 10. [397] Only their type, for the legend below N. Coelho’s ship (“which they broke up”) shows that these are not portraits of the actual vessels, but fancy sketches. Coelho’s vessel was the first to return to Lisbon; it was the store-ship which was broken up. [398] _Obras de Luiz de Camões_, VI. [399] Stanley’s _Vasco da Gama_, p. 26. [400] _Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis_, Lisbon, 1892, p. 99. [401] _Esmeraldo_, p. 99. [402] A ton register is of a capacity of 100 cubic feet; a ton measurement is usually assumed to have a capacity of 40 cubic feet. Hence 400 tons measurement would be equivalent to 160 tons register, instead of 250 to 300. [403] _Le construzione navali (Raccolta Colombiana)_, Rome, 1893, p. 76. [404] The palmo de goa was equal to 293 m.m., and the _tonel_ consequently measured 2.42 cubic metres or 85 cubic feet. “Goa” has nothing to do either with _agoa_, or with the town of that name in India, but is a corruption of “gouê”, a measure anciently used by shipbuilders in the Mediterranean (see Lopez de Mendonça, _loc. cit._, p. 118). [405] _Os Navios de Vasco da Gama_, Lisbon, June, 1892. [406] _Noticia sobre e Não S. Gabriel_, Lisbon, August, 1892. [407] Captain Braz d’Oliveira gives the following dimensions: length, 106 ft.; keel, 54.5 ft.; beam, 20 ft.; draught, aft, 10.5 ft.; depth, 18 ft. [408] This consists in multiplying length of keel, breadth and depth, and dividing by thirty. The result is expressed in _botte_. [409] See J. de Barros, _Dec. I_, l. vi, c. 3. [410] Barros and Castanheda, in addition to bombards, mention spin-gards (wall-pieces) and one-pounder matchlocks. Correa (Stanley’s _Vasco da Gama_) says that the ships, or some of them, in Vasco da Gama’s second voyage were armed with six heavy guns below, four smaller guns and four falconets on deck, and several swivel guns. The caravels, though only manned by thirty men, carried four heavy guns below, six falconets and twelve swivel guns. [411] Note by Sir Clements R. Markham.