Report To The Secretary Of State For India In Council On The Portuguese Records Relating To The East Indies Contained In The Archivo Da Torre Do Tombo And The Public Libraries At Lisbon And Evora

This book, “Report to the Secretary of State for India in Council on the Portuguese records relating to the East Indies contained in the Archivo da Torre do Tombo and the public libraries at Lisbon and Evora,” by the author, is a replication of a book originally published before 1892. In the following pages he has given extracts from some of the documents he examined in Lisbon and Lvora. These he has, as a rule, arranged in chronological order. Where necessary, in order to make them more intelligible, he has connected them together by brief historical extracts taken from Portuguese publications, and this he has endeavoured to do in such a manner as to avoid any appearance of an attempt to form them into an historical essay, which would have been out of place on the present occasion. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.