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PORTUGUESE ROTEIROS, I 500-1700
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certainly not one of his virtues, for his Roteiro da India Oriental
is taken wholesale from those of Manoel de Figueiredo (I6o8),
and Gaspar Ferreira (I 6 I 2 ), with the unblushing substitution of
his own person for the name of the latter wherever it occurred
in the original! Similarly, his Roteiros of Brazil, Africa and
America are likewise ''lifted'' from those of Figueiredo; whilst
his Arte de Navegar is equally copied word for word from that
of his predecessor. The editions of I 642 and I 6 55 are furthermore
very badly printed and with the proofs left uncorrected,
so that the latter version especially is almost unintelligible in
parts. These two editions are accompanied by eleven singularly
badly executed wood-cuts of the chief ports between Vigo and
Cadiz inclusive, with a brief description of the entry into each,
which appears to be Mariz Carneiro's sole original contribution
to the Roteiros printed in his name. Barbosa Machado states
that the author died in I 642, and even reproduces the inscription
on his tombstone; but this is certainly an error as was
discovered a few years ago by Mr Frazao de Vasconcelos who
published a document proving that Mariz Carneiro was exiled
to Brazil for some unspecified crime in I 646 for a period of
five years. That he returned to Portugal and was reinstated in
his former post is also certain, as his signature as Cosmographer-Major
in June I 666 appears in a document of that
date printed in the Roteiro da India Oriental which was published
in the same year at Lisbon.
Of more value than the rather scratchy productions of Mariz
Carneiro are:
XIX. The Roteiros of Luis Serrao Pimentel of I 67 5 and
I 68 I, and of his son:
XX. Manoel Pimentel in I 699. The Roteiro of 167 5 concerns
the Mediterranean only, and was translated from some
foreign work. The edition of I 68 I contains Roteiros relating to
all seas save the Mediterranean. The Roteiro da India Oriental
in this edition is a copy of that of Aleixo da Motta, whilst the
others are drawn from the works of Manoel de Figueiredo, save
the Roteiro of the South African coast by Manoel de Mesquita
which is here printed for the first time in Portuguese. The I 699
edition by Manoel de Pimentel is a slightly increased and im-