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PORTUGUESE ROTEJROS, I500-I700
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interest than the Roteiro da India Oriental of Figueiredo, who
never went to sea at all so far as is known, is the-
XV. Roteiro da Carreira da India, of Gaspar Ferreira
Reimao, printed at Lisbon in I 6 I 2, and of which only one copy
-that now in the National Library of Lisbon-is known to
exist, apart from a few contemporary manuscript versions.
Gaspar Ferreira, who was sota-piloto of the ill-fated Sao Thome
in I 58 9, rose to be the Pilot-Major of India, and as such went
out to the East with the Viceroy Rui Lourens:o de Tavora in
r 6o8. Returning to Portugal in I 6 I o, he was made a Knight
of the Order of Santiago and again went out to India in 1 6 I 4
as Pilot-Major of a squadron of five ships. He made the return
voyage in I 6 I 5 on board the ship of Nuno da Cunha (fresh
from his unsuccessful attacks on the English off Swalley Hole),
which, after touching at Angola, was wrecked off Faial in the
Azores with great loss of life, though Ferreira himself was
amongst the survivors. He enjoyed a great reputation amongst
his contemporaries, in spite of the fact that most of the voyages
he made were rather unlucky, and his Roteiro circulated in
manuscript both before and after its publication. As is the case
with all seventeenth-century Roteiros, it was based on that of
Vicente Rodriguez, but with considerable detail added by the
author, principally concerning the East African coast where
Ferreira had wintered with his whole fleet in the island of Ibo
in I 609. In this connection, it is worth noting the following
passage in the Instructions given to Rui Gon<;:alo de Sequeira,
who was appointed chief of an expedition of seven caravels to
carry reinforcements to the Philippines in March I 6 I 3:
and you will ensure ... that good relations are maintained between the Spanish
and Portuguese pilots, in such wise that the Portuguese instruct the Spaniards in
the art of navigation, taking the latitude of all the islands and lands which you see,
taking soundings thereof, and carefully making the necessary observations of the
course taken, with due care and vigilance ... taking in each of the caravels a copy
of the Roteiro of Gasper Ferreira, Pilot-Major of my Crown of Portugal, printed
in Lisbon in the past year of r612.
XVI. In a manuscript collection of Roteiros compiled by
Dam Antonio de Ataide (Captain-Major of the India Fleet in
I 611-I 2, and Captain-General of the Home Fleet in I 6 I 8-
2I) dating from about I6I5-JI, and to which extensive