Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, João Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the ori

'Being about to write down the disastrous voyage of this great ship, it occurred to me how rash men are in their undertakings, chief among which, or one of the

Eyewitness Henrique Dias gives a first hand account of the wreck of the Portuguese ship Sao Paulo off Sumatra, and the fates of its survivors. The other two nar