camigua

Updated: June 21, 2025

The governor of Borrichena, a Portuguese named Christopher, son of Count Camigua, was massacred by the cannibals of the neighbouring islands, together with all the Christians except the bishop and his servants; the latter only succeeded in escaping, at the cost of abandoning the sacred vessels.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera