The Lusiads - Endnotes

Endnotes

Ceylon. ↩
The “Tagides” are the Poet’s Muses. ↩
Alluding to Eclogues, Pastorals, etc. ↩
Invocation to Dom Sebastiam. ↩
The Arms of Portugal (Canto III 53, 54). ↩
The Ganges (not the Jordan). ↩
Ariosto, i 2, etc. ↩
For the “Great Constable,” Egas and Fuas, see Cantos IV 23, and VIII 13, 17. ↩
D. Joam III and the Emperor Charles Quint. ↩
End of exordium: narrative begins. ↩
Sertorius. ↩
Madagascar. ↩
Here Cabo-das-Correntes. ↩
African daggers and short swords. ↩
Mohammed Rasúl Allah. ↩
Pronounced Kílwá. ↩
Palaeologus, AD 1453. ↩
Arabic. ↩
The Parcae. ↩
Camões had studied the ground. ↩
Arab. for canoe. ↩
A perfect sketch. ↩
Muslims. ↩
The “puer aeternus,” “Deus bi-mater.” ↩
The five zones of Parmenides. ↩
Low Lat. Cendalum = thin silk. ↩
Subaudi, “so hapless.” ↩
Christianity. ↩
Alluding to Da Gama’s “Sea-quake.” ↩
Historical (?) ↩
Islet off the Cutch coast, pronounced Dyú. ↩
Duarte Pacheco Pereira. ↩
Antony and Cleopatra. ↩
Magalhaens (Magellan), Canto X, 138. ↩
Melinde nearer the Line (S. lat. 3° 9′). ↩
Sol entering Taurus, Easter Sunday, April 5, 1498. ↩
Escarlata, a woollen cloth. ↩
The “dragoman,” Fernam Martins. ↩
Our “assegai.” ↩
Tangier. ↩
Tanais, the Don. ↩
Whence Adam (“red man”). ↩
Ruthenians = Eastern Galicians. ↩
Amisius or Amisia (Ems). ↩
Borussians = Prussians. ↩
Harz and Erzgebirge. ↩
Hod. Vardari or Bradi. ↩
Padua. ↩
Seine. ↩
Garonne. ↩
Viriatus = vir, vires, virtus (paronomasia). ↩
De Bouillon, crowned first king of Jerusalem, AD 1099. ↩
The favourite figure correctio. ↩
Valdevez, or Campo da Matança, AD 1128 (Canto IV 16). ↩
I.e., of festal garb (Canto VIII 14). ↩
Battle of Ourique, AD 1139. ↩
Isma’il = Ishmael. ↩
I.e., disclose Thyself, show a sign. ↩
The conqueror’s custom. ↩
St. Irene, Sanctarem, Santarem. ↩
Second Crusade, AD 1147. ↩
Giraldo Sem-Pavor, who took Evora. ↩
Burnt by the Moors. ↩
Syrians. ↩
The Ararat of fiction. ↩
Cape St. Vincent. ↩
The Guadalquivir. ↩
African Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar. ↩
The Emperor of Marocco. ↩
Coimbra. ↩
The Guadiana river. ↩
The Battle of the “Horns of Hattin.” ↩
Sic in orig. ↩
By D. Roderick the Goth. ↩
Begins vehemently⁠—ex abrupto. ↩
The Lixus river, now Al-kús of Marocco. ↩
Battle of Tarifa or Rio Salado, AD 1340. ↩
Fourth of Portugal and eleventh of Castile. ↩
I.e., Portuguese Afonso. ↩
“Peace with honour.” ↩
Writing his name upon the tree-trunks and leaves. ↩
In orig., Ministros, i.e. of wrath (?) ↩
The famous Fonte-dos-Amores, near Coimbra. ↩
E bem parece⁠—ambiguous. ↩
Bryx or Brigus, whence Bragança. ↩
Isla de Leon = Gades, Cadiz. ↩
The Spanish Cuenca, concha, a shell. ↩
Afonso I, son of D. Henrique (Canto iii, 35). ↩
The Castles were added in AD 1252. ↩
Of Abrantes town; battle of Aljubarrota, AD 1385. ↩
Sol in Libra. ↩
Cape Rocca-de-Cintra. ↩
Pompey, Canto III, 62. ↩
Numidian. ↩
Montes-Sete-Irmãos, near Tangier. ↩
Around the Royal banner. ↩
Battle of Valverde. ↩
Canto III, 101. ↩
“Saint” Ferdinand. ↩
Octavius. ↩
Pompey’s tomb on Mount Casius (Baalzephon). ↩
Explorers’ epitaph! ↩
That of the Moon. ↩
The soldiers and sailors then being different services. ↩
I.e., the ships. ↩
Old chapel of Belem (Bethlehem). ↩
The “Old Man of Belem” is the people personified. ↩
Sol entering Leo (Northern Tropic). ↩
The glorious Brazil. ↩
Senegalese of “Sanagá” (Senegal). ↩
The Cape Verd Islands. ↩
Alias Gorgades: Fernando Po, etc. ↩
Not in Camões. “S’a Leone,” August, 1874.

“What sights this lovely scene shall soon unbless,
the simiad Negro swaying Africk strand;
inhuman humans, slaves in Freedom’s dress;
Ah me! what rude and wild and couthless band:
Females with ne’er a ‘No,’ males dumb to ‘Yes,’
lust, superstition, ign’orance curse the land;
fair dwelling-places where the foulest dwell;
the Blackman’s Heaven, and the White Man’s Hell.”

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N. lat. 11° south of Sierra Leone. ↩
S. Thomé. ↩
Saint Elmo’s fire. ↩
The moon moving faster than the sun. ↩
Angra de Sancta Helena, S. lat. 32° 40′. ↩
Tropic of Capricorn. ↩
In orig., bando, applied to birds. ↩
Of Pedr’ Alvares Cabral. ↩
Bartholomeu Dias. ↩
D. Francisco de Almeida. ↩
D. Manoel de Souza. ↩
Angra de Sam Braz (St. Blaise), 70 leagues E. of the Cape. ↩
Sancta Cruz of Bart. Dias. ↩
Off Cabo das Correntes. ↩
Rio-dos-Reis; twelfth day O.S., Jan. 9. ↩
The Cuama-Zambeze mouth. ↩
I.e. to south-east. ↩
The Archangel Raphael. ↩
Scurvy, first poetically described here. ↩
Cleopatra (says Faria y Sousa). ↩
Cleopatra. ↩
Ino and Melicerta (Leucothea and Palaemon). ↩
Glaucus, the fisherman. ↩
Ambergris. ↩
The Argonauts. ↩
Aeolus. ↩
Quarto da prima = 6 to 9 p.m. ↩
John of Gaunt. ↩
= Macrinus, the “little lean one.” ↩
Bruges. ↩
River of Bactria. ↩
Venus rises, the storm falls, and India appears. ↩
Mount Delli, near Cananor. ↩
The Church. ↩
Henry VIII ↩
Saladin. ↩
François I ↩
River of Tripoli. ↩
Carolus Magnus and St. Louis. ↩
Poetic prophecy of the coming kingdom, Byzantium. ↩
Imaus = Híma-álaya = Snow-house. ↩
The Samiry Rajah of Malabar. ↩
Perimál Princes of Malayálam. ↩
Pythagoras the Philosophos, not Sophos. ↩
Kot-wál, captain of fort. ↩
Semiramis. ↩
Ruh Allah (the Breath of Allah). ↩
Hezekiah. ↩
Spurius Posthumius. ↩
Slain at the capture of Lisbon. ↩
Now Saint. ↩
“Sans-peur,” who captured Evora. ↩
D. Pedro Fernandez de Castro. ↩
Grand Master of Sant’Iago (Stanza 26). ↩
Fernam Martinez de Santarem, Vasco Yannes and Gonçalo Ribeiro (Stanza 27). ↩
Paio Rodriguez Marinho. ↩
P. de Menezes, first Governor of Ceuta. ↩
His son, D. Duarte, who saved D. Afonso V ↩
D. Joam I ↩
Southern Constellations. ↩
Ursa Major. ↩
The well Zemzem. ↩
Of Egypt. ↩
I.e., the capstan. ↩
Mace. ↩
The Moluccas. ↩
Asia. ↩
The Dove-nymph. ↩
Φιλαυτία, egoism opposed to altruism. ↩
Myrrha. ↩
Ninus and Amnon. ↩
The peach (Malus persica). ↩
Persia, famed for tapestry. ↩
Narcissus. ↩
Anemone (Adonis’ blood). ↩
Marjoram. ↩
And thou shalt notice at the end of all
twixt ear and sickle how uprears the wall.
Petrarch

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The Pacific, west of “Temistitam” (Tenochtitlan, Mexico). ↩
The Magic Mirror (Canto VIII 45). ↩
Da Gama’s second voyage. ↩
Trimumpára, Rajah of Cochin. ↩
“Conqueror of the Indies.” ↩
At the mouth of the Cochin Backwater. ↩
Rajahship south of Cochin. ↩
The Samorim. ↩
Dom Francisco d’Almeida, first Viceroy. ↩
Lucan, VI 251, etc. ↩
Chief Harbour of Bijapur. ↩
Islet in the Gulf of Cutch, governed by Malik Iyáz. ↩
Mir Husayn, the Turk. ↩
Not in Camões. ↩
Madagascar. ↩
On Ormuz or Hormuz Isle. ↩
Bahrayn Island. ↩
Nov. 25, 1510. ↩
The Malay “crease.” ↩
Alludes to the hanging of Ruy Dias. ↩
Succeeded Soares, AD 1518. ↩
Hod. Masawwah Island. ↩
D. Duarte, AD 1522. ↩
D. Henrique, AD 1525. ↩
D. Pedro, AD 1526. ↩
Java. ↩
Lope Vaz S., the Usurper. ↩
The Muslim Admiral. ↩
D. Nuno, AD 1529. ↩
Bahádur Sháh, King of Cambay. ↩
D. Garcia, AD 1539. ↩
Estevam da Gama, AD 1540. ↩
Villegagnon, expelled by Martim (Martinho) Afonso de Souza, chosen AD 1542. ↩
Now Sadashivgarh. ↩
D. Joam de Castro (AD 1545) worthily ends the Viceroys. ↩
Commanding Diu fort. ↩
Rahádur Sháh of Gujarát. ↩
Elephants. ↩
Adil Sháh of Bijápúr. ↩
The Solar System (Ptolemeian). ↩
Or Imperial: No. 11 sphere, “sensorium of the Deity.” ↩
A couplet for “The Spiritualist.” ↩
First mover, i.e. source of motion: Sphere No. 10. ↩
I.e. moving the orbs from east to west. ↩
Crystalline Sphere (No. 9), revolving in 49,000 years. ↩
Firmament or Zodiac: Sphere No. 8. ↩
In orig. Posada, i.e., not a home. ↩
The Jesuit G. da Silveira, AD 1561. ↩
The Zambeze. ↩
Not in Camões.

“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.

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Rufiji river (of “sewn boats”). ↩
Of vulgar error. ↩
Arab horses. ↩
Ras el-Hadd. ↩
D. Pedro de C., Governor of Hormuz. ↩
Paragoge for Lár. ↩
On the Zanzibar Coast. ↩
Sind; the “Bore” (flood-tide), and Cutch Gulf. ↩
Indus and Ganges. ↩
The Brahminical cord. ↩
Chittagong. ↩
Tavoy, in Tenasserim. ↩
Malaccan Pa-ang, and Patani. ↩
Burmans. ↩
The Karen tribe. ↩
The singer personifies himself as “Song.” ↩
The seaboard of Cochin China. ↩
Hainan. ↩
Malasia. ↩
I.e., be applied to missions. ↩
Java. ↩
We now return westward to Sumatra. ↩
Styrax benzoin (gum benjamin). ↩
Adam’s Peak. ↩
The Coco-de-mer. ↩
Ambergris. ↩
Magellan. ↩
S. Cruz (= The Brazil) found by Cabral, AD 1500. ↩
The Patagonians. ↩
Australia (?) ↩
Epilogue addressed to D. Sebastiam. ↩
Alii “Marroco’s Moors” (Mouros). ↩
“Prester John.” ↩
Sic in orig. ↩
I.e., the lance. ↩
Sans peur. ↩
Espada; sword or (suit of) spades. ↩
Count Julian. ↩
Roderick the Goth. ↩
D. Joam III ↩
Saffi town. ↩
Magellan’s circumnavigation. ↩
A prophecy not unlikely to be realized. ↩
Lucifer, the Fiend. ↩
Magellan. ↩