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APPENDIX

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2010

Afonso de Albuquerque
Translated by
Walter de Gray Birch
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DESCRIPTION OF MALACCA, FROM PEDRO BAERETTO DE RESENDE'S “LIVRO DO ESTADO DA INDIA ORIENTAL”

Sloane Manuscript, 197

MALLAQUA

DESCRIPSAM DA FORTALLEZA DE MALLAQUA

A fortalleza de Mallaqua esta plantada na costa oriental de Iuntana entre ho rio Panagim, e Muar em altura de dous graos e vinte menutos da Banda do Norte foy conquistada e fundada pello insigne Afonso de Albuquerque em quinze de Agosto de mil quinhẽtos e onze esta oje feyta Çidade que tem a fortalleza dentro, e a Çidade sercada de hum muro de pedra e cal de altura de vinte pés e a largura cornessa embayxo etn doze e arremata emsima em sete palmos. Tem seis balluartes em que entra ho que chamã Courassa cada hum chamado com o nome que nelles estam escritos. Todos os muros com seus parapeytos; e cada balluarte tem de prassa vinte passos. E o que chamã Madre de D[eo]s a tem dobrada de man[ei]ra que apenas pode ser defen dido e lauado dos mais Balluartes: o sircuyto de todo este muro he de quinhentos e doze passos entrando tambem ho lugar que ocupam os Balluartes: do Balluarte do Ospital athe Sam Domingos ha contramuro e do de Sanctiago athe Madre de Deos com entulho no meo ficando tudo de largura de catorze palmos, a artilharia que ha nestes Balluartes sam quarenta e huma pessas de doze athe quarenta e quatro liuras de pillouro de ferro.

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The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
Translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774
 , pp. 265 - 308
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1880

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