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MANRIQUE (Sebastião). ITINERÁRIO de Sebastião Manrique. Lisboa. 1946. - MANRIQUE (Sebastião) ITINERÁRIO de Sebastião Manrique . Edição organizada e prefaciada por Luís Silveira. Lisboa: Agência Geral das Colónias, 1946. 2 v.: il.; 225 mm. A fine edition of the travel itinerary of Sebastião Manrique. An Augustinian hermit, he was sent to the missions in Bengal in 1628, where he remained for 13 years. He then traveled to Rome where he was appointed Definitor General and Procurator General of the Province of Portugal in the Curia. From Rome he embarked for London, where he was brutally murdered by a servant. During his time in the East, he passed through the kingdoms of Pegu, Mogor, Cochinchina, Makassar and other places, leaving this account of his travels. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate