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180 PORTUGUESE ROTEIROS, I500-J700
Joao Baptista Lavanha polio de J7icente Rodriguez, E he muito
certo, E tem muitas E mui boas curiosidades, and dated from about
I604.
XIII. Dating from the same period is the next item on our
list, which is the Roteiro da Carreira da India written by Gaspar
Manuel of Villa do Conde. This Gaspar Manuel, who appears
to have been a different person from the Manuel Gaspar whose
Roteiro is cited under No. XI above, went to India as the Pilot­
Major of the Viceroy Martim Affonso de Castro in I 604.
Whether this work was compiled before or after this particular
voyage is uncertain; but if the latter, then it must date from
about I 6o6. A contemporary copy exists in the National
Library at Lisbon, which was printed by Gabriel Pereira in his
above-quoted work published in I 898.
XIV. This brings us to the earliest printed collection of
Roteiros in Portugal, which are those included in the various
editions of Manoel de Figueiredo's Hydrographia. Exame de
Pilotos &c., first published in I 6o8; and with subsequent reprints,
more or less slightly altered, in I 609, I 6 I 4, I 62 5 and
I 6 3 2. We have neither the time nor the space to sort out the
differences between these various editions, which is a well-nigh
impossible task considering their erratic pagination, complicated
arrangement, and the fact of the few existing copies being
bound au diable, so that no two of them are alike. Interested
readers are therefore referred to Commander da Costa's
Bibliografia dos Roteiros Portugueses ate ao anno de qoo (Lisbon,
I934), but even this work, although a vast improvement on all
previous efforts, contains several errors and omissions. Here
we can only note that the Roteiro of Vicente Rodriguez was
printed for the first time (in his native tongue) in I 6o8, perhaps,
to judge from the title, from the version of Joao Baptista
Lavanha; whilst another issue of the same year contains the
earliest printed Roteiros of Brasil, Angola, Guine and Cabo
Verde, as well as that of New Found Land. In I609 followed
a supplement with the Roteiros of the Spanish Main and West
Indies; and all of the foregoing were reprinted in I 6 I 4· At
some date between this year and I 62 5 was issued a second
edition of Vicente Rodriguez's Roteiro, very much altered and