Chapter XI: Canto X: Endnotes

[45: The Pacific, west of “Temistitam” (Tenochtitlan, Mexico).]

[46: The Magic Mirror (Canto VIII. 45).]

[47: Da Gama’s second voyage.]

[48: Trimumpára, Rajah of Cochin.]

[49: “Conqueror of the Indies.”]

[50: At the mouth of the Cochin Backwater.]

[51: Rajahship south of Cochin.]

[52: The Samorim.]

[53: Dom Francisco d’Almeida, first Viceroy.]

[54: Lucan, VI. 251, etc.]

[55: Chief Harbour of Bijapur.]

[56: Islet in the Gulf of Cutch, governed by Malik Iyáz.]

[57: Mir Husayn, the Turk.]

[58: 38 _a_. Not in Camoens.]

[59: Madagascar.]

[60: On Ormuz or Hormuz Isle.]

[61: Bahrayn Island.]

[62: Nov. 25, 1510.]

[63: The Malay “crease.”]

[64: Alludes to the hanging of Ruy Dias.]

[65: Succeeded Soares, A.D. 1518.]

[66: Hod. Masawwah Island.]

[67: D. Duarte, A.D. 1522.]

[68: D. Henrique, A.D. 1525.]

[69: D. Pedro, A.D. 1526.]

[70: Java.]

[71: Lope Vaz S., the Usurper.]

[72: The Moslem Admiral.]

[73: D. Nuno, A.D. 1529.]

[74: Bahádur Sháh, King of Cambay.]

[75: D. Garcia, A.D. 1539.]

[76: Estevam da Gama, A.D. 1540.]

[77: Villegagnon, expelled by Martim (Martinho) Afonso de Souza, chosen A.D. 1542.]

[78: Now Sadashivgarh.]

[79: D. Joam de Castro (A.D. 1545) worthily ends the Viceroys.]

[80: Commanding Diu fort.]

[81: Rahádur Sháh of Gujarát.]

[82: Elephants.]

[83: Adil Sháh of Bijápúr.]

[84: The Solar System (Ptolemeian).]

[85: Or Imperial: No. 11 sphere, “sensorium of the Deity.”]

[86: A couplet for “The Spiritualist.”]

[87: First mover, _i.e._ source of motion: Sphere No. 10.]

[88: _i.e._ moving the orbs from east to west.]

[89: Crystalline Sphere (No. 9), revolving in 49,000 years.]

[90: Firmament or Zodiac: Sphere No. 8.]

[91: _In orig._ Posada, _i.e._, not a home.]

[92: The Jesuit G. da Silveira, A.D. 1561.]

[93: The Zambeze.]

[94: 95_a_. Not in Camoens.

“And see yon twain from Britain’s foggy shore
set forth dark Africk’s jungle-plain to span;
thy furthest fount, O Nilus! they explore,
and where Zaïré springs to seek the Main:
The Veil of Isis hides thy land no more,
whose ways wide open to the world are lain:
They deem, vain fools! to win fair HONOUR’S prize:--
This exiled lives, and that untimely dies.]

[95: Rufiji river (of “sewn boats”).]

[96: Of vulgar error.]

[97: Arab horses.]

[98: Ras el-Hadd.]

[99: D. Pedro de C., Governor of Hormuz.]

[100: Paragoge for Lár.]

[101: On the Zanzibar Coast.]

[102: Sind; the “Bore” (flood-tide), and Cutch Gulf.]

[103: Indus and Ganges.]

[104: The Brahminical cord.]

[105: Chittagong.]

[106: Tavoy, in Tenasserim.]

[107: Malaccan Pa-ang, and Patani.]

[108: Burmans.]

[109: The Karen tribe.]

[110: The singer personifies himself as “Song.”]

[111: The seaboard of Cochin China.]

[112: Hainan.]

[113: Malasia.]

[114: _i.e._, be applied to missions.]

[115: Java.]

[116: We now return westward to Sumatra.]

[117: Styrax benzoin (gum benjamin).]

[118: Adam’s Peak.]

[119: The Coco-de-mer.]

[120: Ambergris.]

[121: Magellan.]

[122: S. Cruz (= The Brazil) found by Cabral, A.D. 1500.]

[123: The Patagonians.]

[124: Australia (?)]

[125: Epilogue addressed to D. Sebastiam.]

[126: Alii “Marroco’s Moors” (Mouros).]

THE REJECTED STANZAS.

(ESTANCIAS DESPREZADAS)

NOTE.

These Stanzas, omitted by Camoens, were discovered by Manoel de Faria y Sousa, and published in his Commentaries (Juan Sanches, 1639). The whole are extant in three manuscripts. Number I., the better of the two first, contains only six cantos: Number II., belonging to M. Correia Montenegro, embraces the whole poem. The third MS., in the hands of M. Luiz Franco, is given by Viscount Juromenha (Vol. VI. 419). It has only four “rejected stanzas”; the first three are those of Faria y Sousa; and the fourth is that of the established text (Canto I. 79) with a few unimportant changes of words and rhymes.

The Stanzas number:--

MS. No. 1, 48 + 2 fragments = 49
” ” 2, (Correia Montenegro’s) = 26
” ” 3, (Luiz Franco’s) = 4
--
Total 79

I will not here enter into the consideration why the Stanzas were left out. Many of them fully equal those retained in the popular “Lusiads”; but almost all contain something opposed to public, or rather to priestly, sentiment. A cursory glance shows that not a few want the polish and finish which distinguish the Poem. I have purposely followed suit for the sake of contrast and fidelity. Juromenha’s original text is printed _in verso_, that the reader may judge how literal is my version, which, for additional security, was submitted to Mr. J. J. Aubertin, the translator of “The Lusiads.”

ESTANCIAS DESPREZADAS.

Canto I.

Isto dizendo, irado e quasi insano,
Sobre a Thebana parte descendeo,
Onde vestindo a fórma, e gesto humano,
Para onde o sol nasce se moveo.
Já atravessa a mar Mediterrano,
Já de Cleopátra o reino discorreo;
Já deixa á mão direita os Garamantes,
E os desertos de Libya circumstantes.

THE REJECTED STANZAS.

MANUSCRIPT NO. 1.