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PORTUGUESE ROTEIROS, I500-I700
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reference has been made elsewhere 1 , we find practically the
whole of the work of Gaspar Ferreira transcribed, together with
most of the charts which accompany the original work. However,
Dom Antonio de Ataide has added two which were not
included by Ferreira, one of them being a singularly fine and
detailed map of Madagascar-probably from the hand of Luis
or Joao Teixeira, famous cartographers of the early seventeenth
century-and copied from the original one which accompanied
the account of the expedition sent from Goa to explore and
chart the coasts of Madagascar in the year I 6 I 3, written by its
leader, the pilot Paulo Rodrigues da Costa on his return to Goa
in I 6 I 4· This latter version is still preserved in Evora, and has
been published; but the original map has long since disappeared,
so that the copy made for Dom Antonio de Ataide forms an
important and hitherto unregistered contribution to the history
of the early cartography of Madagascar.
XVII. Another important and oft-quoted Roteiro of the
period is the Roteiro da Carreira da India written by the pilot
Aleixo da Motta about r 62 I, after he had made the voyage six
times. There is a contemporary manuscript copy of this work
in the National Library at Lisbon, with some additions in the
hand of the pilot of the galleon Nossa Senhora de Atalaya, I 64 I,
but its first appearance in print was in a French translation
included in Thevenot's Voyages of I 664. In the last quarter
of the same century it was included in Pimentel's Roteiros
(cf. infra), and was published in entirety for the first time by
Gabriel Pereira in I 8 9 8. Of the remaining seventeenth-century
works the most remarkable are:
XVIII. The Roteiros compiled by Antonio de Mariz Carneiro
and published by him in r642, I655and I666. Antonio
de Mariz Carneiro who served as Cosmographer-Major of
Portugal from I6JI until some time after r666, is an elusive
figure of whom little is known. He was nicknamed the Agulha
Fixa, on account of his preoccupation with the problem of
magnetic variation, and was the inventor, or adaptor, of several
nautical instruments of doubtful merit. Personal honesty was
r Cf. my article Um Roteirista desconhecido do seculo X/711, printed in the
Arquivo Historico da Marinha, Lisbon, 1934.
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