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Barbosa and Gomez on board the Trinidad, Luis Alfonso de Goez and Vasco Gallego on the Victoria, Serrâo, Joao Lopez de Carvalho on the Concepcion, Joao Rodriguez de Moefrapil on the Sant'-Antonio, and Joao Serrâo on the Santiago, with 25 sailors, formed a total of 33 Portuguese out of the whole body of 237 individuals whose names have all been handed down to us, and amongst whom are found a considerable number of Frenchmen.
They are the Africans with whom the world of to-morrow must reckon, just as the world of yesterday knew them to its cost. Cf. "Ethiopia Oriental," by J. Dos Santos, in Theal's Records of South Africa, Vol. Barbosa, quoted in Keane, II, 482. It was called Sofala, from an Arabic word, and may be associated with the Ophir of Solomon.
The productions of the island, he says, were chiefly exported to Catai or China. From Sumatra he proceeded to Banda and the Moluccas, from thence returned by Java and Malacca to the west of India, and arrived at Lisbon in 1508. Odoardus Barbosa, of Lisbon, who concluded the journal of his voyage in 1516, speaks with much precision of Sumatra.
"He lives in great state and calls himself king, but is in obedience to the king, his uncle." Leaving the sea-coast and going inland, Barbosa passed upwards through the ghats. "Forty-five leagues from these mountains there is a very large city which is called BIJANAGUER, very populous, and surrounded on one side by a very good wall, and on another by a river, and on the other by a mountain.
It will be safer then to attribute it to one of the Coimbra Frenchmen. The same must be said of the tomb in the Graça church at Santarem. It was built in 1532 in honour of three men already long dead Pero Carreiro, Gonzalo Gil Barbosa his son-in-law, and Francisco Barbosa his grandson.
Cabral was well pleased with this promising beginning, and immediately appointed Gonzalo Gil Barbosa as factor, who had been assistant to Aries Correa, giving him Laurenço Morena as clerk, and Madera de Alcusia as interpreter, with four of the banished men as servants.
Barbosa mentions that the lord of Goa, before the Portuguese attack on the place, was "Sabaym Delcani," meaning the king of the Dakhan, and he alludes to its first capture by Albuquerque on 25th February 1510, and the second on 25th November of the same year.
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