A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
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A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
Africa -- Description and travel; Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524; India -- Description and travel; Voyages and travels
+Thiago+, _see_ +São Thiago+.
+Thomar+ (32° 38´ N., 8° 23´ W.), since 1356 principal seat of the
Order of Christ, 233
+Timoja+, the “pirate”, 82
+Tîmor+ (10° S., 125° E.), 101
+Tin+, 18, 100, 213
+Toar, Sancho de+, discovers Delagoa Bay, 18;
shipwrecked at Mombaça, 38
+Toleta de Martoloia+, 168
+Tomaschek, Dr.+, quoted, 26, 208
+Tonnage+ of vessels, 161
+Toscanelli’s+ letter, xvi
+Touca+, a cap, 20, 23
+Trinidad+ Island (20° 20´ S., 29° 20´ E., Map I), 187, 190, 191 (its
discovery)
+Trinity+, Order of, 177
+Tristão da Cunha+, Islands (37° 24´ S., 12° 20´ W., Map I), 189,
190, note 2
+Turtle Doves+, 6
+Tuuz+, Tor (28° 15´ N., 23° 30´ E., Map I), 78
+Valle, Pietro della+, quoted, 55
+Vallego, A. Cánovas+, 206
+Variation+ of the compass, 168
+Varthema+, quoted, 99, 102, 139
+Varnhagen+, 158
+Vasconcellos, E. J. Carvalho e+, xxxvi
+Velho, Alvaro+, xxx, xxxi, 178
+Veloso, Fernão+, at St. Helena Bay, 7;
muster-roll, 178
+Venice+, 78
+Vespucci, Amerigo+, 120, 179, 206, 211
+Vilhegas, Diogo Ortiz de+, 166, 167
+Vidigueira+ (38° 12´ N., 7° 48´ W.), 236, 237
+Villa de Frades+, village, one mile from Vidigueira, 235, 236
+Villafranca de Xira+, town on the Tejo, twenty miles above Lisbon
(38° 58´ N., 9° W.), 227, 234
+Villanova de Milfontes+, coast town, fifteen miles south of Sines
(37° 43´ N., 8° 45´ W.), 231, 234
+Villa Viçosa+ (38° 47´ N., 70° 24´ W.), 236
+Vizinho, José+, 167
+Vocabulary+ of Malayalam, 105
+Whales+, 4, 6
+Wieser, F. R. von+, xix
+Wine+ at Calecut, 131, 135
+Wolf, Rudolf+, quoted, 168
+Xarnauz+, Sornau, Siam, 99
+Xerafin+, a coin at Calecut, equal to 12 fanãos in gold, or 7_s._
5_d._
+Yule, Colonel+, quoted, 47, 98, 99, 130, 131
+Zacut+, the astronomer, 167, 168
+Zambuk+, _see_ +Barca+.
+Zamorin+, title of ruler of Calecut, 61;
his letter to Vasco da Gama, 75 (_see_ also +Gama+ and +Dias+).
+Zanzibar+, (6° 10´ S., 30° 10´ E., Map III), 92, 207, 218
+Zavra+, a dhau, 34
[Illustration: II.
THE CAPE
TO
NATAL
_E. G. R._
_George Philip & Son_]
[Illustration: III.
NATAL TO MAGADOXO
_E. G. R._
_Geo. Philip & Son_]
[Illustration: IV.
WEST COAST OF I N D I A
_E. G. R._
_Geo. Philip & Son_]
[Illustration: V.
ANONYMOUS [1502] Published by Dr. E. T. Hamy
HAKLUYT, S, I, v. XCIX]
[Illustration: VI.
CANTINO’S CHART. 1502
HAKLUYT, S, I, v. XCIX]
[Illustration: VII.
NICOLAS DE CANERIO 1502.
SOUTH AFRICA
HAKLUYT, S, I, v. XCIX]
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