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these European wanderings, and when he came to Antwerp,
Teixeira does not inform us, and we have no means (at
present) of ascertaining. Dr. Kayserling, in the work II. I
already quoted, says :—“ It was at Antwerp, the oldest THE FIRST COMING OF THE ENGLISH AND ii
Dutch settlement of the Spanish-Portuguesc exiles, that THE DUTCH TO THE EAST.1
Pedro took up his abode after the termination of his
journey. There he published his valuable work on the
THE period covered by the travels of Pedro Teixeira ;!
I origin and order of succession of the kings of Persia and
(1586-1605) was a critical one in the history of the Portu­
Hormez [sic]; there he wrote his Travels from India to
guese in the East. In 1580 Philip II of Spain had been l j
Italy; and there, not at Verona,1 most probably towards
proclaimed King of Portugal, and this country had entered
the middle of the seventeenth century, he died in the
upon the. “ sixty years’ captivity” that proved one of the
Jewish faith, and was gathered to his fathers in a better i
prime factors in the loss of nearly the whole of its Eastern
world.” For the statements in the latter part of this
possessions. In that same year, also, Drake had returned
extract Dr. Kayserling gives no proofs, and I am unable
to England from his famous voyage round the world,2
to confirm or to contradict them.2
which gave rise to a “ diplomatic wrangle” that eventuated I
in a rupture of relations and a bitter maritime war between
1 In a footnote Dr. Kayserling states that Daniel Levi de Barrios, j
Wolff, Zunz, and Stcinschneider all mention Verona as the place of England and Spain.
Pedro Teixeira’s death ; but he thinks that more credence is to be
given to Barbosa Machado, who, in his Bibliotheca Lusitana (Lisbon, Shortly before Drake’s return, John Newbery3 had
1747), tom. iii, p. 622, says of Teixeira: “Vizitou Vencza, domic por
terra veyo a Anveres e nesta cidade fez o seu domicilio ate a mortc.” sailed (on September 19th, 1580) for Tripoli, in Syria, Ii
In his Bibliotcca Espahola-Portuguesa-fudaica (1S90), however, Dr. whence he journeyed by way of the Euphrates Valley and
Kayserling leaves the place of Teixeira’s death a moot point.
the Persian Gulf to Hormuz, returning thence through i
J Dr. Kayserling, to whom I wrote, was unable to add any infor­
mation to that given above ; nor has Dr. M. Gaster, who kindly made Persia, Armenia, etc., to Constantinople, and then across i
inquiries for me, succeeded in eliciting any further details regarding Europe, reaching London in August, 1582.4 Within six
Teixeira. i
1 The subject of the early English and Dutch voyages to the East ii
has been ably dealt with by Sir George Birdwood, in his Report on the
Old Records of the India Office (second reprint, 1891), pp. 183-199 ;
and Sir W. W. Hunter, in his History of British India, vol. i, chaps,
v-vii. My object here has been to bring together in a connected form
various particulars relating to some of these voyages, mostly from S
Portuguese sources, that have been hitherto overlooked by English
writers on the subject. They will enable the reader, I think, to gain
a fairly accurate idea of how the position appeared from a Portuguese ! !
standpoint. 1
2 See The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, edited for the !
Hakluyt Society by Mr. W. S. W. Vaux.
3 Regarding this man, see J. Horton Rylc/s Ralph Fitch, pp. 202-
211.
4 Details of this journey are given in Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. ii.

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