[462] _Passa de cincoenta annos_ [i.e. 1512-63] _que ando no rodizio d’este serviço, aleijado de feridas com que irei á cova sem satisfação._ [463] Cf. ii. 608, 752; iii. 437; iv. 338, 537-8, 567-8, 665, 669, 730-1. [464] He so styles his work in the preface of _Lenda_ iv. [465] He is writing, he says, in 1561 (_Lendas_, i. 265); 1561 again (i. 995: _não cessando este trabalho até este anno_); 1563 (iii. 438); 1550 (iv. 25); 1551 (iv. 732). [466] The value of that evidence varies. For instance, he assures us (iii. 689) that he saw with his own eyes a native 300 years old and his son of 200; yet there is something suspicious in the roundness of the figures. [467] _Escrevia com elle as cartas pera El Rei_ (ii. 172). [468] Albuquerque in one of his letters (No. 95) says that in Portugal a man is hanged for stealing Alentejan _mantas_. Corrêa repeats this phrase twice (_Lendas_, ii. 752; iv. 731). [469] Cf. ii. 247: _Eu ouvi dizer a Afonso d’Albuquerque_. [470] _Neste meu trabalho não tomei sentido senão escrever os feitos dos Portugueses e nada das terras_ (iii. 66). Cf. i. 651, 815; ii. 222. [471] Latino Coelho, _Fernão de Magalhães_ in _Archivo Pittoresco_, vi. (1863), p. 170 et seq. [472] Corrêa himself seems to have been rather unsuccessful than scrupulous in amassing money. He tells without a hint of embarrassment (ii. 432) how he took the white and gold scarf (_rumal_) of the murdered Resnordim (or Rais Ahmad) and sold it for 20 _xarafins_ (about £7), and (iii. 281) helped to dispose of stolen goods in 1528 at Cochin. [473] _Protestando d’em meus dias esta lenda nom mostrar a nenhum_ (i. 3). [474] _Que colligi dos proprios originaes._ The work is a history of events in India, not a biography of Albuquerque, the first forty years of whose life are represented only by half a dozen sentences (1774 ed., iv. 255). [475] _Aquelle tão pouco venturoso como sciente & valeroso Antonio Galvão_ (João Pinto Ribeyro, _Preferencia das Letras ás Armas_, 1645). In his youth in India he won the regard of that keen judge of men, Afonso de Albuquerque, who could see in him nothing to find fault with except his excessive generosity. [476] _Tratado. Prologo_ [3 ff.]. _Em este tractado con noue ou dez liuros das cousas de Maluco & da India que me o Cardeal mandou dar a Damiam de Goes._ [477] Vol. i, No. 4. [478] Vol. v, No. 1 (1836). [479] The name would seem to have been really Tillison, i.e. son of John Tilly, who married a granddaughter of Moraes, the author of _Palmeirim_.