LOPO DE SOUSA COUTINHO (?1515-77), father of Frei Luis de Sousa and one of the captains in the heroic siege of Diu (1538)--he is said to have died by accidentally running himself through with his sword when dismounting from his horse--wrote a striking account of the siege, especially of its last incidents, in his _Livro Primeiro do Cerco de Diu_ (1556). The siege of Mazagam (1562) was similarly described in clear, vigorous prose by AGOSTINHO GAVY DE MENDONÇA: _Historia do famoso cerco qve o Xarife pos á fortaleza de Mazagam_ (1607). JORGE DE LEMOS, of Goa, wrote a careful _Historia dos Cercos ... de Malaca_ (1585), and ANTONIO CASTILHO, the distinguished son of the celebrated architect João, published a _Commentario do Cerco de Goa e Chaul no anno MDLXX_ (1572). Events in the Moluccas were briefly recorded in an _Informaçam das cousas de Maluco_ (1569) by GABRIEL DE RABELLO, who went out as factor of Tidore in 1566. The anonymous gentleman of Elvas who wrote the _Relaçam verdadeira_ (1557) of Soto’s discovery of Florida was a keen observer and related what he saw in direct language. His publisher, André de Burgos, in a short preface washes his hands of the style as insufficiently polished (_limado_). The deeds of D. Cristovam da Gama, his conquest of a hundred leagues of territory in Ethiopia, his defeat, torture, and beheadal, are recounted with the vivid details of an eyewitness by MIGUEL DE CASTANHOSO, of Santarem, who accompanied him on his fatal expedition. This _Historia_ (1564) was published by João da Barreira, who dedicated it to D. Cristovam’s nephew, D. Francisco de Portugal. MANUEL DE ABREU MOUSINHO wrote in Spanish a brief account of the conquest of Pegu by Salvador Ribeiro de Sousa, of which a Portuguese version appeared in the 1711 edition of Mendez Pinto’s travels: _Breve discurso em que se contem a conquista do reyno de Pegu_, nearly a century after the original edition, _Breve Discvrso en qve se cventa_, &c. (1617). The _Jornada do Maranhão feita por Jeronymo de Albuquerque em 1614_ is ascribed to DIOGO DE CAMPOS MORENO, who took part in that _conquista_. It was published in the _Collecção de Noticias para a Historia e Geographia das Nações Ultramarinas_.[477] The second volume of this collection contains several re-translations of _Navegações_ (by Thomé Lopez and anonymous Portuguese pilots) surviving in Italian in Ramusio. It would require a separate volume to give an account of all the sixteenth-and seventeenth-century narratives of newly conquered countries written in Portuguese and often immediately translated into many European languages, e.g. the _Novo Descobrimento do Grão Cathayo_ (1626) by the Jesuit ANTONIO DE ANDRADE (_c._ 1580-1634), or the _Relaçam_ of the Jesuit ALVARO SEMMEDO (1585?-1658) written in Portuguese but published in the Spanish translation of Faria e Sousa: _Imperio de la China_ (1642). However unliterary, they are often so vividly written as to be literature in the best sense.