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Sacred Texts Legends/Sagas

p. lxxxvi

BOOK I.
	PAGE
Subject proposed	1, 2
Invocation to the Muses of the Tagus	3
Address to Don Sebastian	3, 4
Assembly of the gods and goddesses	8
The fleet enters the Indian Ocean	13
Discovers islands there	13
Description of the natives	14
Intercourse with the ships	15, 16
The governor visits Gama	17, 18.
Bacchus determines on obstructing the fleet	20
His stratagem for that purpose	21
Attack by the Portuguese on landing to obtain water	23
Bombardment of the town	24, 25
Another plot of Bacchus	26, 27
The poet’s reflections	29
BOOK II.
Treacherous invitation from the King of Mombas for the fleet to enter the harbour	31
Messengers sent on shore by Gama to look at the town	32, 33
Venus and the Nereids save the fleet from danger	35, 36
Venus appeals to Jupiter on behalf of the expedition	40
His reply	43
Mercury sent to earth	46
His message to Gama in a dream	47
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How the vessels escaped	49
They meet two Moorish ships	49
Their account of Melinda and its king	50
Hospitable reception by the King of Melinda	51
Gama’s address	52
The king’s reply	53, 54
Night rejoicings in the ships and on shore	54, 55
Visit of the king to the fleet	55
Gama’s speech	57
The king requests Gama to describe his country and relate its history	58
BOOK III.
Invocation to Calliope	60
Gama commences his story	61
Geographical description of Europe	62
Ancient history of Portugal commences	66
Fidelity of Egas Moniz	70, 71
Battle of Ourique	72-75
Origin of the Portuguese shield and arms	76
Leiria, Mafra, Cintra, Lisbon, etc.	76-78
Palmella, etc., taken from the Moors	79
Alphonso at war with the Leonese	79, 80
Gathering of the Moors to invest Santarem	81
Defeated by the Portuguese	83
Death of Alphonso	83
Don Sancho besieges Sylves	84
Character of Sancho II.	85
„ „ King Dionis	87
„ „ Alphonso IV.	87
The Moors assemble again to invade Portugal	88
The Queen of Spain asks aid from her father, the King of Portugal	88
The two allied sovereigns defeat the Moors	90
Episode of Inez de Castro, or the "Fair Inez"	92-96
Character of King Ferdinand	100
BOOK IV.
State of Portugal on the death of Ferdinand	103
King John succeeds to the throne	103
Character of Queen Leonora	104
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The Castilians assemble in aid of Beatrice, daughter of Leonora	106
Don Nuno Alvarez’s loyalty	107
Battle between the Portuguese and Castilians	113
The latter defeated	116, 117
Alphonso, after defeating the Moors, attacks the King of Arragon	117
Alphonso dies, and is succeeded by John II.	118
King John sends to explore the East by land	122
Emmanuel succeeds; his dream of the rivers Ganges and Indus	123
The king consults his council	125
Entrusts the expedition to Vasco de Gama	125
Vasco de Gama’s preparations	127
Parting of the armada with their friends	129
The old man’s farewell address	130
BOOK V.
Departure of the fleet from Lisbon	133
Madeira, Coast of Morocco, the Azenegues	134
The river Senegal, Cape Verde, San Jago, Jalofo, Mandinga	135
Dorcades, Sierra Leone, Cape Palmas	136
St. Thomas, Congo, the river Zaire	137
A water-spout described	139
They land near the Tropic of Capricorn	141
A native African met with	141
Veloso’s adventure on shore	142
Gigantic vision of the Cape	146
The armada lands at Saõ Braz	153
Currents encountered	155
The armada touches at Natal	155
Reaches Sofála; description of the inhabitants	157
The crews attacked by scurvy	158
Vasco de Gama compares his voyage with the narratives of ancient poets, and concludes his story	159
Reflections on the subject by the poet	161, 162
BOOK VI.
Hospitality of the King of Melinda	164
Gama takes his leave	166
Bacchus descends to Neptune’s abode	166
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Description thereof	167
The sea-gods assembled by Neptune. Bacchus’ address to Neptune and the other sea-gods	169
Neptune orders Æolus to let loose the winds on the Portuguese fleet	173
The fleet on a tranquil sea	174
Veloso, to pass the time away, relates the story of a tournament in England	175
A dark cloud comes over, and the storm arises	183
Venus, the morning star, appears, and the goddess calls the Nereids to her aid	188
Orithya, Galatea, and other sea-nymphs persuade Boreas to cease his blustering	189
Morning appears, and with it the mountain-tops of the Indian coast	190
Gama returns thanks to God	190
The poet’s reflections	190, 191
BOOK VII.
The Portuguese exhorted to the warfare of the cross, other nations being reproved	193-197
India described	198
The fleet anchors, and a message is sent on shore	198
Meeting with Mozaide, who speaks Spanish	199
Mozaide visits Gama, and describes the country	200
Gama goes on shore	209
Enters with the kotwâl into an Indian temple	209
Gama’s interview with the Indian king	213
His speech	214
The king’s reply	215
Mozaide’s description of the Portuguese	216
Visit of the kotwâl to the ships	217
The poet invokes the nymphs of the Tagus, and briefly describes his own shipwreck and other misfortunes	218-221
BOOK VIII.
Description of the pictures	222
Bacchus appears as Mohammed, to a priest in a dream	238
The king consults with the magi and the soothsayers	240
The priest consults his friends	241
How evil counsellors mislead kings	242
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The king’s defiant speech and base accusation	244
Gama’s answer to the king	215-247
Gama detained prisoner in the kotwâl’s house	250
BOOK IX.
The king visits the house of the kotwâl	252
Addresses Gama, detained as a prisoner there	252
On what conditions he may be allowed to return to his fleet	253
Gama’s indignant reply	253, 254
The king orders the signal to be given	254
The Moorish vessels surround the fleet, and attack it with clouds of arrows	255
The drums and trumpets of the fleet call to action	255
Destruction of the Moorish vessels by the cannon of the ships	256
Bombardment of Calicut by the fleet	257
The terrified multitude implores the king to release his prisoner	258
The king implores Gama to spare his city and people	258
Lama’s dignified reply	258
The terms offered by the king rejected by Gama	259
Gama directs the king to hoist the Portuguese flag and convey him to his ships	260
Peace restored. Presents of Indian productions	261
Mozaide had discovered to Gama the intended treachery	261
Conversion to Christianity of Mozaide	262
Return of the fleet to Portugal with the hostages	262
Venus raises the Island of Love in the sea, to afford the sailors a resting-place. She summons the Nereids, and informs them of her intentions. Seeks her son, Cupid	264
Cupid discharges the arrows of love at the sea-nymphs	269-271
Approach of the Portuguese fleet	273
The Island of Love described	274-280
The sailors land and pursue the nymphs	280-288
Tethys leads Gama to a palace on a lofty hill	289
The allegory explained	290
BOOK X.
Happiness of the heroes and nymphs	299
The poet apostrophizes his muse and bewails his own fate	301, 302
The siren’s prophetic song	302
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She pauses to reflect on the ill-requited bravery of Pacheco	305
The siren resumes her prophetic song	305
Foretells the needless cruelty of Albuquerque, who puts to death a soldier for a venial offence	310, 311
Soarez, Sequeyra, Menez, Mascarene, Nunio, Noronha, Souza, and other heroes	312-318
The nymph Tethys leads them to the summit of a rugged hill, where the globe in miniature is displayed before them	319
The Ptolemean system described	320
Sketch of the geography of the world	325
History of St. Thomas, the Apostle of India	331-335
Geographical description continued	337-353
Tethys bids the Portuguese farewell	353
Their return home and reception at Lisbon	356
The poet’s conclusion, and patriotic exhortation to his sovereign	356, 357

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