_ 191 _ cantari of lead which was to have been bartered for Indian merchandise(A). The catastrophe that happened to the "Nunciada" was not known to the chroniclers. This gap explains the confusion of their data which do not agree on the number of ships that make up the squadron(B).The delays which (A) In Sanuto, Diarii, VI, p. 26-27. The burning of the "Nunciada" is also mentioned by Ca'Masser in Relazione di Lunardo da Cha Masser (Centenario do descobrimento da America. Memorias da comissao portuguesa, Lisbon, 1892, appendix, p.73). This same author enumerates the merchandise effectively carried by the squadron, as follows: 2800 cantari of copper at 12 ducats per cantar, 6500 onces of coral at 1 ducat per once, 500 cantari of lead at 6 ducats per canter 300 cantari of cinnabar and as much of mercury, at respectively 20 and 18 ducats per cantar (loc.cit., p. (B) Eleven according to the "BM Anonymous", p. 116, and Ca'Masser, 1. c., p. 73; twelve according to Castanheda, I/90, p. 191, G. Priuli, I Diarii di Girolamo Priuli (1499-1512) in the care of Roberto Cessi, II, Bologna, 1937, p. 385 (Raccolta degli storici italiani, vol. 24/3) and the Copia d'una lettera del-Re de Portugallo mandata al Rei de Castella del viaggio e successo de India 1504, ed. E. de Canto, Lisbon, 1906, pages not numbered; thirteen captains according to Barros, I/7-9, p. 289 and Góis, I/96, p. 231. In fact, thirteen vessels were loaded in India in 1505 (Inventory squadron of António de of 1505, TdT, CM 3-337) three of which belonged to the Saldanha (the "Taforea", the ship of Setúbal and the vessel of D. Nuno). therefore, comprised eleven the squadron belonging to Lopo Soares Manuel Teles de Vasconcelos who lived in India. including the one commanded by No doubt the latter was on board the "Nunciada" - homonym of the captain's ship destroyed
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