{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/lus/lus06.htm","path":"neu/lus/lus06.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/lus/lus06.htm","text":"| BOOK I. | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Subject proposed | 1, 2 | \n| Invocation to the Muses of the Tagus | 3 | \n| Address to Don Sebastian | 3, 4 | \n| Assembly of the gods and goddesses | 8 | \n| The fleet enters the Indian Ocean | 13 | \n| Discovers islands there | 13 | \n| Description of the natives | 14 | \n| Intercourse with the ships | 15, 16 | \n| The governor visits Gama | 17, 18. | \n| Bacchus determines on obstructing the fleet | 20 | \n| His stratagem for that purpose | 21 | \n| Attack by the Portuguese on landing to obtain water | 23 | \n| Bombardment of the town | 24, 25 | \n| Another plot of Bacchus | 26, 27 | \n| The poet\u2019s reflections | 29 | \n| BOOK II. | | \n| Treacherous invitation from the King of Mombas for the fleet to enter the harbour | 31 | \n| Messengers sent on shore by Gama to look at the town | 32, 33 | \n| Venus and the Nereids save the fleet from danger | 35, 36 | \n| Venus appeals to Jupiter on behalf of the expedition | 40 | \n| His reply | 43 | \n| Mercury sent to earth | 46 | \n| His message to Gama in a dream | 47 | \n| p. lxxxviii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| How the vessels escaped | 49 | \n| They meet two Moorish ships | 49 | \n| Their account of Melinda and its king | 50 | \n| Hospitable reception by the King of Melinda | 51 | \n| Gama\u2019s address | 52 | \n| The king\u2019s reply | 53, 54 | \n| Night rejoicings in the ships and on shore | 54, 55 | \n| Visit of the king to the fleet | 55 | \n| Gama\u2019s speech | 57 | \n| The king requests Gama to describe his country and relate its history | 58 | \n| BOOK III. | | \n| Invocation to Calliope | 60 | \n| Gama commences his story | 61 | \n| Geographical description of Europe | 62 | \n| Ancient history of Portugal commences | 66 | \n| Fidelity of Egas Moniz | 70, 71 | \n| Battle of Ourique | 72-75 | \n| Origin of the Portuguese shield and arms | 76 | \n| Leiria, Mafra, Cintra, Lisbon, etc. | 76-78 | \n| Palmella, etc., taken from the Moors | 79 | \n| Alphonso at war with the Leonese | 79, 80 | \n| Gathering of the Moors to invest Santarem | 81 | \n| Defeated by the Portuguese | 83 | \n| Death of Alphonso | 83 | \n| Don Sancho besieges Sylves | 84 | \n| Character of Sancho II. | 85 | \n| \u201e \u201e King Dionis | 87 | \n| \u201e \u201e Alphonso IV. | 87 | \n| The Moors assemble again to invade Portugal | 88 | \n| The Queen of Spain asks aid from her father, the King of Portugal | 88 | \n| The two allied sovereigns defeat the Moors | 90 | \n| Episode of Inez de Castro, or the \"Fair Inez\" | 92-96 | \n| Character of King Ferdinand | 100 | \n| BOOK IV. | | \n| State of Portugal on the death of Ferdinand | 103 | \n| King John succeeds to the throne | 103 | \n| Character of Queen Leonora | 104 | \n| p. lxxxix | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Castilians assemble in aid of Beatrice, daughter of Leonora | 106 | \n| Don Nuno Alvarez\u2019s loyalty | 107 | \n| Battle between the Portuguese and Castilians | 113 | \n| The latter defeated | 116, 117 | \n| Alphonso, after defeating the Moors, attacks the King of Arragon | 117 | \n| Alphonso dies, and is succeeded by John II. | 118 | \n| King John sends to explore the East by land | 122 | \n| Emmanuel succeeds; his dream of the rivers Ganges and Indus | 123 | \n| The king consults his council | 125 | \n| Entrusts the expedition to Vasco de Gama | 125 | \n| Vasco de Gama\u2019s preparations | 127 | \n| Parting of the armada with their friends | 129 | \n| The old man\u2019s farewell address | 130 | \n| BOOK V. | | \n| Departure of the fleet from Lisbon | 133 | \n| Madeira, Coast of Morocco, the Azenegues | 134 | \n| The river Senegal, Cape Verde, San Jago, Jalofo, Mandinga | 135 | \n| Dorcades, Sierra Leone, Cape Palmas | 136 | \n| St. Thomas, Congo, the river Zaire | 137 | \n| A water-spout described | 139 | \n| They land near the Tropic of Capricorn | 141 | \n| A native African met with | 141 | \n| Veloso\u2019s adventure on shore | 142 | \n| Gigantic vision of the Cape | 146 | \n| The armada lands at Sa\u00f5 Braz | 153 | \n| Currents encountered | 155 | \n| The armada touches at Natal | 155 | \n| Reaches Sof\u00e1la; description of the inhabitants | 157 | \n| The crews attacked by scurvy | 158 | \n| Vasco de Gama compares his voyage with the narratives of ancient poets, and concludes his story | 159 | \n| Reflections on the subject by the poet | 161, 162 | \n| BOOK VI. | | \n| Hospitality of the King of Melinda | 164 | \n| Gama takes his leave | 166 | \n| Bacchus descends to Neptune\u2019s abode | 166 | \n| p. xc | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Description thereof | 167 | \n| The sea-gods assembled by Neptune. Bacchus\u2019 address to Neptune and the other sea-gods | 169 | \n| Neptune orders \u00c6olus to let loose the winds on the Portuguese fleet | 173 | \n| The fleet on a tranquil sea | 174 | \n| Veloso, to pass the time away, relates the story of a tournament in England | 175 | \n| A dark cloud comes over, and the storm arises | 183 | \n| Venus, the morning star, appears, and the goddess calls the Nereids to her aid | 188 | \n| Orithya, Galatea, and other sea-nymphs persuade Boreas to cease his blustering | 189 | \n| Morning appears, and with it the mountain-tops of the Indian coast | 190 | \n| Gama returns thanks to God | 190 | \n| The poet\u2019s reflections | 190, 191 | \n| BOOK VII. | | \n| The Portuguese exhorted to the warfare of the cross, other nations being reproved | 193-197 | \n| India described | 198 | \n| The fleet anchors, and a message is sent on shore | 198 | \n| Meeting with Mozaide, who speaks Spanish | 199 | \n| Mozaide visits Gama, and describes the country | 200 | \n| Gama goes on shore | 209 | \n| Enters with the kotw\u00e2l into an Indian temple | 209 | \n| Gama\u2019s interview with the Indian king | 213 | \n| His speech | 214 | \n| The king\u2019s reply | 215 | \n| Mozaide\u2019s description of the Portuguese | 216 | \n| Visit of the kotw\u00e2l to the ships | 217 | \n| The poet invokes the nymphs of the Tagus, and briefly describes his own shipwreck and other misfortunes | 218-221 | \n| BOOK VIII. | | \n| Description of the pictures | 222 | \n| Bacchus appears as Mohammed, to a priest in a dream | 238 | \n| The king consults with the magi and the soothsayers | 240 | \n| The priest consults his friends | 241 | \n| How evil counsellors mislead kings | 242 | \n| p. xci | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The king\u2019s defiant speech and base accusation | 244 | \n| Gama\u2019s answer to the king | 215-247 | \n| Gama detained prisoner in the kotw\u00e2l\u2019s house | 250 | \n| BOOK IX. | | \n| The king visits the house of the kotw\u00e2l | 252 | \n| Addresses Gama, detained as a prisoner there | 252 | \n| On what conditions he may be allowed to return to his fleet | 253 | \n| Gama\u2019s indignant reply | 253, 254 | \n| The king orders the signal to be given | 254 | \n| The Moorish vessels surround the fleet, and attack it with clouds of arrows | 255 | \n| The drums and trumpets of the fleet call to action | 255 | \n| Destruction of the Moorish vessels by the cannon of the ships | 256 | \n| Bombardment of Calicut by the fleet | 257 | \n| The terrified multitude implores the king to release his prisoner | 258 | \n| The king implores Gama to spare his city and people | 258 | \n| Lama\u2019s dignified reply | 258 | \n| The terms offered by the king rejected by Gama | 259 | \n| Gama directs the king to hoist the Portuguese flag and convey him to his ships | 260 | \n| Peace restored. Presents of Indian productions | 261 | \n| Mozaide had discovered to Gama the intended treachery | 261 | \n| Conversion to Christianity of Mozaide | 262 | \n| Return of the fleet to Portugal with the hostages | 262 | \n| Venus raises the Island of Love in the sea, to afford the sailors a resting-place. She summons the Nereids, and informs them of her intentions. Seeks her son, Cupid | 264 | \n| Cupid discharges the arrows of love at the sea-nymphs | 269-271 | \n| Approach of the Portuguese fleet | 273 | \n| The Island of Love described | 274-280 | \n| The sailors land and pursue the nymphs | 280-288 | \n| Tethys leads Gama to a palace on a lofty hill | 289 | \n| The allegory explained | 290 | \n| BOOK X. | | \n| Happiness of the heroes and nymphs | 299 | \n| The poet apostrophizes his muse and bewails his own fate | 301, 302 | \n| The siren\u2019s prophetic song | 302 | \n| p. xcii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| She pauses to reflect on the ill-requited bravery of Pacheco | 305 | \n| The siren resumes her prophetic song | 305 | \n| Foretells the needless cruelty of Albuquerque, who puts to death a soldier for a venial offence | 310, 311 | \n| Soarez, Sequeyra, Menez, Mascarene, Nunio, Noronha, Souza, and other heroes | 312-318 | \n| The nymph Tethys leads them to the summit of a rugged hill, where the globe in miniature is displayed before them | 319 | \n| The Ptolemean system described | 320 | \n| Sketch of the geography of the world | 325 | \n| History of St. Thomas, the Apostle of India | 331-335 | \n| Geographical description continued | 337-353 | \n| Tethys bids the Portuguese farewell | 353 | \n| Their return home and reception at Lisbon | 356 | \n| The poet\u2019s conclusion, and patriotic exhortation to his sovereign | 356, 357 |","title":"The Lusiad: Contents","type":"page"}