![]() ![]() I will comment extensively on the man to whom the case file refers, Gaspar Gomes de Faria, a mestiço of Portuguese and Indian ancestry. This article has an inquisitorial record at its core. We can imagine, however, an agent of the Inquisition squeezing through the crowd on the dockside to reach the carrack and collect the annual correspondence and other papers from Goa, including the case file mentioned above, which would have then been swiftly delivered to the ministers of the Holy Office. 1622–1628) who was returning to the kingdom under arrest. ![]() 2 When the Calvário finally arrived in Lisbon, all eyes must have been on its main passenger, Dom Francisco da Gama, the outgoing viceroy of Portuguese Asia (r. 1 The water damaged a significant part of the cargo but spared a case file deemed worthy “of great consideration,” which the inquisitors of Goa were sending to their superiors in Portugal. Meanwhile, the Calvário was held back by storms around the Cape of Good Hope for three and a half months before reaching, in a wretched state, the port of Luanda, in Angola. ![]() After a stop in Pernambuco, Brazil, it was intercepted by a Dutch fleet and its captain and other crew members were killed. The ship had left Goa, the capital of Portuguese Asia on the western seaboard of India, about one year earlier, together with a smaller vessel. On Mathe carrack Bom Jesus do Monte Calvário entered Lisbon harbor after a long, perilous voyage across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. ![]()
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