Duarte Barbosa: 3 books

Duarte Barbosa (circa 1480, Lisbon, Portugal - 1 May 1521, Philippines) was a Portuguese writer and Portuguese India officer between 1500 and 1516–17, with the post of scrivener in the Cannanore Factory in India and sometimes interpreter of the local language (Malayalam). His "Book of Duarte...

A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by the Portugueses India officer, Duarte Barbosa.This book is one of the travel literature.He died in 1521 at the feast of rajah Humabon on Cebu Island in the Philippines.

The Spanish manuscript from which this volume has been translated is in the handwriting of the beginning of 1500, full of abbreviations, and without punctuation or capital letters at the beginnings of sentences or for the proper names, which adds much to the difficulty of reading it. It contains eighty-seven...