[508] In this _Relaçam do naufragio da nao S. Thomé_, written in 1611, twenty-two years after the event, he refers several times to his _Decadas_. [509] _Naufragio da nao S. Alberto_ (1593). It is a summary of a _largo cartapacio_ of the pilot. [510] _pedirme meu tio Ioam de Barros que lhe screuesse muito particularmente todos os lugares deste meu caminho._ [511] _Verd. Inf._, p. 110: _nam era pera velhos_. [512] This seems to have aroused the resentment of Barros (_Asia_, III. iv. 3). The author, he says, had no learning. In II. iii. 4 he again refers to him slightingly as ‘a certain Francisco Alvarez’. Barros as grammarian similarly ignored Oliveira. [513] Barbosa Machado says, _ultimamente em o Convento de Goa, para onde tinha passado no anno de 1622 falleceu com saudade_, &c. Innocencio da Silva read this with a comma after _passado_. [514] Afonso de Albuquerque mentions another surgeon Mestre Afonso in India in his time, i.e. half a century earlier. The value of the _Itinerario_ consists in its having been written as a diary on the journey, and its author, perhaps thinking of Mendez Pinto, says _hee hũu grande descuido de homens que fazem semelhantes viagens e as nom escreuem ... porque a memoria nom pode ser capaz de tamanha cousa e tantas particularidades_ (p. 82). [515] According to Barbosa Machado he entered the Jesuit College as a novice in 1645 and died in 1712 _aet._ 78. Godinho also wrote a life of Frei Antonio das Chagas. [516] He was the son of D. Jorge, illegitimate son of João II., and was created Duke of Aveiro. [517] See the important works by Colonel Cristovam Ayres, _Fernão Mendes Pinto_, 1904; _Fernão Mendes Pinto e o Japão_, 1906. [518] His work did not appear till 1614 and it is uncertain to what extent it was edited by the historian Francisco de Andrade. It is thought that the account of his services as missionary in Japan may have been excised owing to the hostility of the Jesuits. [519] Cap. 223: _eu respondi acrecentando em muitas cousas que me perguntava por me parecer que era assim necessario á reputação da nação portuguesa_. [520] Cf. caps. 14, 70, 88, 114, 126, 198, 204. The complaint is echoed by almost every Portuguese traveller of the day. Bishop Osorio refers to the _fidei faciendae difficultas_; even the truthful and exact Francisco Alvarez fears his readers’ disbelief.