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LOBATO (Alexandre). DA ÉPOCA e dos Feitos de António de Saldanha. Lisboa. 1964. - LOBATO (Alexandre) DA ÉPOCA e dos Feitos de António de Saldanha . Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Históricos e Ultramarinos, 1964. 188 pp.; 230 mm. This monograph by Alexandre Lobato is dedicated to the life and career of António de Saldanha, a nobleman of Castilian origin in the service of the Portuguese crown. Based on the chronicles of Gaspar Correia, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, and João de Barros, the study reconstructs Saldanha's journey in the service of Afonso de Albuquerque and Tristão da Cunha: the patrol at the mouth of the Red Sea, his command in Sofala and on the Island of Mozambique, and the 1503 episode in which, due to a navigational error, he anchored in the bay now known as Table Bay, becoming the first European to do so and to climb the mountain he named Taboa do Cabo, giving rise to the Portuguese name Aguada de Saldanha. The work was translated into English in 1962, under the title António de Saldanha: His Time and His Achievements , two years before the publication of this Portuguese edition. A highly regarded study. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate