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    All these heroic virtues of your highness being well known to me, have
    encouraged me to publish this work and - Page 451
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All These Heroic Virtues Of Your Highness Being Well Known To Me, Have Encouraged Me To Publish This Work And Others, Which Have Some Taste Of Learning, That They May Remain A Perpetual Memorial Of The Noble Deeds Of So Many Gentlemen And Knights Of Portugal, Your Subjects.

In this I have been much forwarded by having been in India, where I sojourned with my father, who was sent into that country by your highness as a judge.

I spent all my youth in the pursuit of learning, and in the study of ancient historians. Being in India, I set myself with all diligence to learn and understand all that had been done in regard to the discovery and conquest of that country by the Portuguese, with the intention of making the same known and common to all men. By my inquiries, and through the information derived from sundry gentlemen and captains, both such as were actually present in the various transactions, and employed in their execution, as by others who were engaged in counselling and preparing the means of their being performed, I have derived much authentic information; as, likewise, by the perusal of many letters and memorials, which were written by men of credit and reputation, all of which I have examined as evidences of the authenticity of my work, both while in India and since my return into Portugal. As the matters I meant to write of were many, so it became necessary for me to acquire information from many sources; and as those whom I examined were upon oath, it is lawful for me to bring them forward as sure evidence.

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