Talk:Melchior Nunes Barreto

Champeiloo, Lampacau, Pulotrimam and Samcham
About this sentence : ''″in 1554 he tried to sail to Japan through Malacca, but he could not reach his intended destination. He instead visited the Malaysian islands of Champeiloo, Lampacau, Pulotrimam, and Sancham, paying tribute to the tomb of Francis Xavier on the Sancham island″''

Champeiloo, Lampacau and Pulotrimam, are different names of the same place. It is not in Malaysia but in China.

Samcham is one of the portuguese names of Shangchuan Island, were Francis Xavier died.

The visit of Nunez Barreto in Shangchuan and in Lampacau was counted in the Pilgrimage of Fernão Mendes Pinto. I think that the names "Champeiloo" and "Pulotrimam" are those used by Mendes Pinto for Lampacau, and that he mistaked describing a single place as two different places, but I am not sure. However the English translations of the book of Mendes Pinto skip this passage, it can only be read in Portuguese or in French, and I am not sure that this issue is interresting in this article: Just keep Lampacau.

As long Macau was created in 1557, Nunes Barreto cannot has visited this place in 1555. But maybe that some considers Lampacau as a kind of early Macau. Lampacau was however few kilometers from Macau

Regards


 * Based on this passage from "Purchas his Pilgrimes", Champeiloo is the name for an island off the south Vietnamese coast (Cochinchina). Pulotrimam remains a mystery. Phrilser2.0 (talk) 07:38, 25 August 2018 (UTC)