ABSTRACT
First published in 1930.
'The Broadway Travellers consolidates its already high reputation by issuing this volume...' Spectator
This is the first translation of the Commentarios since original publication in 1647. Copies of the original are very rare yet the work covers an historically significant period, describing the operations leading up to the capture from the Portuguese of Ormuz, in the Persian Gulf, by an Anglo-Persian force. Of importance in the history of the rise of the Indian Empire, this is the first printed account of the Portuguese version of the affair.
The appendices include many previously unpublished Portuguese documents, the most important of which is the full Journal of Edward Monnox, who was present throughout the operations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |5 pages
Departure of Ruy Freyre from Lisbon &c:
chapter |6 pages
Of how he arrived at Mogambique &c:
part |2 pages
Of how he left Mogambique &c:
chapter |3 pages
Of how the Armada arrived at the Cape of Iasques &c:
chapter |4 pages
Concerning the deliberation of the English &c:
chapter |5 pages
How Ruy Freyre arrived at Ormuz. &c:
chapter |3 pages
How the Fleet arrived at the island of Queixome &c:
chapter |4 pages
How the Persians encamped &c:
chapter |3 pages
Of how the Captain-Major completed the Fortress. &c:
part |2 pages
Of what passed between the Captain-Major and Miragonadim &c:
chapter |6 pages
Departure of Balthezar de Chaves &c:
chapter |3 pages
Of the warning that was received about a mine &c:
chapter |5 pages
How Andre Coutinho arrived with news of the English ships &c:
part |2 pages
How the Portuguese replied unto the English &c:
