Vasco da Gama only arrived on August 29th in a caravel, for his brother, Paulo da Gama, being very ill, he went from the island of São Thiago to that of Terçeira, allowing his ship to be taken to Lisbon by João de Sá. And Vasco da Gama buried his brother, whose death much afflicted him, in the island of Terçeira, and after that landed at Lisbon on August 29th, as stated above, or two years after he had started on his discovery. From the _Livro das armadas e capitaes que forão a India_, which, as already stated, forms an Appendix to Rezende’s _Livro do estado da India_, we take the following:— _Vasco da Gama, captain-major, 1497._ He departed on July 8th, by order of King Dom Manuel, with four ships to discover India, viz.: Vasco da Gama in the _S. Gabriel_. Paulo da Gama, his brother, in the _S. Raphael_. Nicolao Coelho in the ship _Berrio_. Gonçalo Nunes in a store-ship. The people and provisions in the ship of Gonçalo Nunes were distributed among the other ships after the Cape of Good Hope had been passed, and beyond the Aguada (watering-place) of S. Braz, and this ship, having been stripped, was set on fire. The ship of Paulo da Gama stranded on the voyage home to Portugal on the shoals between Guilva [Kilwa] and Mombaça, and these shoals were named after the _S. Raphael_ which had now run aground upon them. Her people were distributed among the two companion-ships. APPENDIX D. [Illustration: THE “SÃO GABRIEL”. (_From a Model designed by Captain A. A. Baldaque da Silva, drawn by Herbert Johnson._)] VASCO DA GAMA’S SHIPS AND THEIR EQUIPMENT. All authorities agree that the fleet, or armada, fitted out for Vasco da Gama’s voyage numbered four vessels, but they are not agreed as to the names which these vessels bore. We are not, however, likely to be misled if we accept the unanimous testimony of the author of our _Roteiro_, of João de Barros, Lopez de Castanheda, Pedro Barretto de Rezende, and Manuel Faria y Sousa: according to whom the names of the ships and of their principal officers were as follows:— _S. Gabriel_ (flag-ship).—Vasco da Gama, captain-major; Pero d’Alenquer, pilot; Gonçalo Alvarez, master; Diogo Dias, clerk. _S. Raphael._—Paulo da Gama, captain; João de Coimbra pilot; João de Sá, clerk. _Berrio._—Nicolau Coelho, captain; Pero Escolar, pilot; Alvaro de Braga, clerk. _Store-ship._—Gonçalo Nunes, captain. Correa and the unknown author of the _Jornal das Viagens_ (p. 145) call the “Berrio” _S. Miguel_, and make the _S. Raphael_ the flag-ship; whilst L. de Figueiredo de Falcão (p. 147) substitutes a _S. Miguel_ for the _S. Raphael_. It is just possible that the vessel popularly called _Berrio_, after its former owner, had been re-christened _S. Miguel_.