_ 208 _ The part concerning Albuquerque begins with chapter 12 (his voyage from Portugal and arrival in Goa), continue to the end of the Book and finishes with a review of the character of Matias (ch. 35). In Decada XII [1597-1600], Couto relates the handing over of government to his successor, the disagreement between the two viceroys, the public satisfaction given by Matias to Antonio Giralte (lacking in the Vida), the fire abroad Matias’s carrack in Cochin and his arrival in Lisbon in another carrack (pp. 14-15, 55-56, 71-72). The Vida is thus confirmed and completed by Couto’s Decades. Fr. Sebastiao Goncalves(A), the historian of the Jesuit Order in India, also discussed Matias de Albuquerque, with whom he sailed to India in 1590-91. He was born in Ponte de Lima in 1555, became a Jesuit in 1574, lived in India from 1591 and died in Goa in 1619. He wrote the Historia dos Jesuitas no Oriente in three volumes, reaching 1605, but only the first volume ending in 1570 survives, and was published in three parts(B). It therefore lacks the Viceroyalty of Matias de Albuquerque, who is mentioned several times: 11,366 (unfortunate super intendancy of the fortress of Daman), (A) Ibidem, 481-82. (B) See note 8.
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