[85] She also sent the beautiful bronze tomb in which her eldest brother
Affonso, who died young, lies in the cathedral, Braga. The bronze effigy
lies on the top of an altar-tomb under a canopy upheld by two slender
bronze shafts. Unfortunately it is much damaged and stands in so dark a
corner that it can scarcely be seen.
[86] In one transept there is a very large blue tile picture.
[87] The Aleo is still at Ceuta. In the cathedral Our Lady of Africa
holds it in her hand, and it is given to each new governor on his
arrival as a symbol of office.
[88] The inscription is:--
Memoria de D. Duarte de Menezes
Terceiro conde de Viana, Tronco
dos condes de Tarouca. Primeiro
Capitão de Alcacer-Seguer, em Africa,
que com quinhentos soldados defendeu
esta praça contra cemmil
Mouros, com os quaes teve
muitos encontros, ficando n'elles
com grande honra e gloria. Morreu na
serra de Bonacofú per salvar a
vida do seu rei D. Affonso o Quinto.
[89] When the tomb was moved from São Francisco, only one tooth, not a
finger, was found inside.
[90] Besides the church there is in Caminha a street in which most of
the houses have charming doors and windows of about the same date as the
church.
[91] 1524 seems too early by some forty years.
[92] The rest of the west front was rebuilt and the inside altered by
Archbishop Dom José de Braganza, a son of Dom Pedro II., about two
hundred years ago.
[93] A chapel was added at the back, and at a higher level some time
during the seventeenth century to cover in one of the statues, that of
St. Anthony of Padua, who was then becoming very popular.
[94] This winding stair was built by Dom Manoel: cf. some stairs at
Thomar.
[95] A 'pelourinho' is a market cross.
[96] The kitchens in the houses at Marrakesh and elsewhere in Morocco
have somewhat similar chimneys. See B. Meakin, _The Land of the Moors_.
[97] 'Esta fortaleza se começou a xiij dagosto de mil cccc.l. P[N. of T.
horizonal line through it] iiij por mãdado del Rey dõ Joam o segundo
nosso sõr e acabouse em tpõ del Rey dom Manoel o primeiro nosso Sñor
fela per seus mãdados dom Diogo Lobo baram dalvito.'
[98] The house of the duke of Cadaval called 'Agua de Peixes,' not very
far off, has several windows in the same Moorish style.
[99] Vilhena Barbosa, _Monumentos de Portugal_, p. 324.
[100] Though the grammar seems a little doubtful this seems to mean
Since these by service were
And loyal efforts gained,
By these and others like to them
They ought to be maintained.
[101] One blank space in one of the corners is pointed out as having
contained the arms of the Duque d'Aveiro beheaded for conspiracy in
1758. In reality it was painted with the arms of the Coelhos, but the
old boarding fell out and has never been replaced.
[102] Affonso de Albuquerque took Ormuz in 1509 and Gôa next year.
[103] Sumatra was visited in 1509.
[104] Fernão Peres de Andrade established himself at Canton in 1517 and
reached Pekin in 1521.
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