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16 DR .. JOAQUJJI[ DE 0All!l'OR [YoL. XXX II classic and brilliant, and writing some years nfLor Lhn ovnnts lw records !mel taken place, he gi.\'eS from memory vivid pietnreH or Silllll as of other countries he visited. M:111y of his dusct·ipLions are lHtsetl on hearstty and hence reflect the popubr errors, feeliugs, beliefs nnd superstitions. His chronology and the transcription of local na11ws have sometimes undergone frightful distortiOJlH andlwtny lll'l'Ol'H in the Pererri?u~9cmn are attributo,ble to his fln;t editoe, li'. do Andem1c, nntl to his printers who could scarcely understand tho unfamiliar IutlllUH nml facts. There is colouring, but no wilful miRrepresentation of facts, iu Ute lurid der;criptions of life that can be felt pulsating under the touch of his pen a,gainst the background 11ncl in the very :1tmosphere of thn plttcuH and countrins in which he movnd and lived. He vvns not, certainly, n scientifin explorer and does not appear to have knpt a dit1ry or any notes, but some years after his peregrinations were over, he trnnsfen·t:cl to his rich Cltnvtts the informo,tion he had received ttncl tlw imprufisions he had absorhncl with the instinctive inRight of an arti::;t iul'uHing life into the pictmes he depicts. Even his mi&takeH very often prove his veracity. He relatns for iuRtance tlmt he found P'~ople in BuddhiRt countries invoking Trinity ttrHl saying, G1xl of truth ,i.s tft;l't!e in one, 11nd he thinks thttt thorn may be tmces of tho gospd iu tim religion of these people. 34 One would immeditttely reject this :-;tory as an invention, but though Pinto's intnrpretation iH wrong the faet he mentions is true for the people were really invoking the 'l.'riple Gems of Buddhism, the triad: the Buddha, Dharma and Stwgha, or tho Bucldlm, the Law, and thn Clergy. Owing to the many strange facts which Pinto relates, he had boon long considerncl a liar. But justice htts been larg 0 ly done to him, uot; only by Portugunse writers like Christovam Ayres who exploded many myths, but also by foreign writers who studied the parts of th& Pe?·cg?·ii1WQLW1 in which they were interested. ----·------------~~-----·---·--~----------·--------- ~------· . iH r:ricolo Conti :tiso rema~·ke;l c!u~·ing his vi~it to Bnrma that the---~~~lle m their pmyers satd: God ~n .1'1·~mty lceep us 'In kis La'W rmd Sir H. Yule l'enml'lo; tha.t this whieh appeal'S like fiction is renlly an ~vidence of Conti's verncit.y. See EmbcLssy to Am, p. 208 . . Pinto sttys i;1 th~ · Pereg?·inc~r;c~,m that he noticed this in Lanchang ~Oalanunlmm) nud m htH letter of l5fl4 he sn.ys thttt he s~tw rt similn.t fact in Pecrn, !r· G. Schnrhammei· .in his Fe1:nao .Mendes P'into u,nd seine Pereg 1·inar:~n, Jnmps to the concluswn that Pmto betrn,ys or contt'!tdicts himself when it is quite 1mtmal tl11tt he should make simih.n· observations in two Buddhist, countries 1md might have even done so in a third one such as Siam.
P1'. 1) gARLY POW!'UGUEHI!: ACCOUN1'S 01into's hook. BO Sorno o£ the facts mentioned by Pinto regarding Siam and emnmented on nnfail'ly by Mr. W. A. R Wood require elucidation. Mr. Wood to .. kes Pinto to t11Hk on account of the exaggerated number of men eomposing tho ILl'mieH, which he callA a perversion of truth. Tho nmnlJcrs t~ru of:ton oxftggomtod it iH tl'llc, but they J'erJresent only popular ostimt1t1~s, whieh wl\re imaginary. l\lilitary authorities themsolve~ could not taku a proper count, for ns bhe al'mies marched or Rltiled along the rivorH, humh·edH of village men were recruited on the wny 11nd swelled bite original numbers. This 11CCuHation of oxaggcmting numbers etm he Cljtmlly levelled agahmt subsequent tmvcllo~·s like Oaesnro ]'edereci and Ralph Fitch and against the PhongBct'l.vculwns themselves. When Bnreng Naung invaded Siam in 1568, Caesare Fedoreci who was in Burma, relates that t.he Burmese army consisted of one million four hundred tlwusand men, The Siamese Phongswwadwn gives one million men. Mendes Pinto is more 35 'l'he Chronology of Luang Prusoet's Phongsc~waclan is in geneml reliable, but it cannot be t1tken a~ n.bsolubely conect. Some of the facts can also be demonstt·1~ted to be wrong. 36 Bc~tc~lhcts da Oompctnh·icb de Jesus, 1894, p. 286.
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