Duarte Barbosa

Duarte Barbosa was a Portuguese writer and Portuguese India officer between 1500 and 15161517, with the post of scrivener in Cannanore factory and sometimes interpreter of the local language . His Book of Duarte Barbosa is one of the earliest examples of Portuguese travel literature, written c. 1516, shortly after the arrival in the Indian Ocean. In 1519 Duarte Barbosa embarked on the first expedition to circumnavigate the world, led by his brotherinlaw Ferdinand Magellan. He died in 1521 at the feast of rajah Humabon on Cebu Island in the Philippines.

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