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186 PORTUGUESE ROTEIROS, 1500-1700
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science. Several new and unrecorded editions of the printed
works of Manoel de Figueiredo and of Antonio de Mariz
Carneiro came to light as a result of it, as well as some manuscripts,
including an unregistered version of Dom Joao de
Castro's Roteiro.
It is to be hoped, also, that those who gazed upon these worn
title-pages or well-thumbed manuscripts, gave a thought to the
sufferings of the countless nameless pilots who sacrificed their
lives in unchartered seas for the making of them; since Portugal
of old, like England, is entitled to exclaim with mingled pride
and sorrow,
If Blood be the price of Admiralty, Lord God we have paid in full.