time rendered a like service to Brazil in his _Narrativa epistolar_, edited in 1847 by F. A. de Varnhagen. A more important work on Brazil was that of GABRIEL SOAREZ DE SOUSA (_c._ 1540-92)--the _Tratado descriptivo do Brasil em 1587_, which its modern editor, F. A. de Varnhagen, described in a moment of enthusiasm as ‘the most admirable of all the works of the Portuguese _quinhentistas_’. Two other works of interest, half history, half travels, are the _Jornada do Arcebispo de Goa Dom Frey Aleixo de Meneses_ (1606) by ANTONIO DE GOUVEA, Bishop of Cyrene (_c._ 1565-1628), in three parts, describing the archbishop’s life and visits in his diocese; and the _Discvrso da Iornada de D. Gonçalo Covtinho á villa de Mazagam e sev governo nella_ (1629). The writer--the admirer of Camões and alleged author of the 1614 life of Sá de Miranda--who, as he says, had grown white in the council-chamber, lived on till 1634. He here relates with much directness his voyage and four years’ Governorship (1623-7). The _Saudades da Terra_ (1873) of GASPAR FRUCTUOSO (1522-91), who was born at S. Miguel in the Azores, was written in 1590 and waited three centuries in manuscript for an editor. Both its title and the ‘preamble’, in which Truth says that she will write of nothing but sadness, are misleading, since the book is an account--in good, straightforward style after the manner of Castanheda and other historians--of the discovery and subsequent conditions of various islands, especially of Madeira and the lives of its Governors. ANTONIO CORDEIRO (1641-1722), Jesuit, of Angra, wrote at the age of seventy-six an uncritical but interesting work entitled _Historia Insulana das Ilhas a Portugal sujeitas no Oceano Occidental_ (1717), based partly on Fructuoso’s manuscript.