_ 372 _ The Kannarese heathen of that land have the custom of showing great kindness at the time of a death, weeping and commiserating. When they saw his countenance, which manifested the honesty and gravity of the man, his beard whitened by age and suffering, they did and said such things that there was no one present who was not overtaken by grief. All were especially moved by those women he had enabled to marry. With much weeping and tender feeling he was buried in a chapel which he had had built at the gate of the city. This chapel is known as Our Lady of the Mountain. Because he had endowed it, and for reasons we have already related. Mass is said there every day, and now it is said for his soul, employing funds which he set aside for this purpose. He was Afonso de Albuquerque, second son of Gonçalo de Albuquerque, Lord of Vilaverde, and of Dona Lianor de Menezes, wife of the same, who was the daughter of Dom Alvaro Gonçalves d’ Ataide, first Count of the Atougvia. During the lifetime of King Dom João the Second, Afonso de Albuquerque was his Grand Master of the Horse. He was a man of medium stature, with a merry, kindly face. When he was angry, he assumed a sad dignity. He
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