The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07

yield to the rowing disposition and
to call Il national pride.
Orta was no runaway lad when he
went so far afeld His family was
one well placed, he was an intimate
in a noble house at Elvas and the
way to preferment was laid out for
him from the beginning He was sent
to the great Spanish universities OF
Salamanca and Alcala. from which he
was graduated a doctor in medicine
in 1895. After seven years Of Coun-
try practice near his native town he
was called 10 a lectureship In the Uni
versity OF Lisbon and held the posi-
ton until 1884 From this place Of
academic honor. which We may read
lis Judge he used in the spread Of
medical knowledge. he was called &C
accompany his boyhoOd friend Martin
Alfonso de SOusa on the voyage 10
India. leaving the Tagus I'm March
and coming TO shore at Goa in Sep
TENDER. an average passage for the
ships OF the period With Sousa he
saw much active service under sew
eral governors until in the course OF
time his friend SOusa was raised 10
the dignity. with him in his cam
paigns ne became familiar with much
OF the west coast Of india. was pres
ent at the session Of Diu by the King
OF Cambay. and with this monarch.
Bahadur Shah. made a victorious
march across Kattioawar almost TO
Ahmednagar with Sousa he shared
the campaign from Cochin against
the Zamorin and down into Ceylon.
In
soiourn he served as surgeon 70 the
forces, later he came into a fine prac-
tice as physician 10 the Viceroys. both
his bosom friend Sousa and Pedro
Mascarenhas and Dom Constantine de
Bra ganza, who succeeded him IN that
Office. In this period OF his dignity
and greatest activity he lived in Goa
in mansion set in a garden filed
with fruits and medicinal herbs Tor in
these colloquics we find him fire.
quently calling servant To- go out
into the garden 20 fetch a specimen OF
the plant which chances 20 be under
discussion. Goa has long fallen into
inslgnificance since the British estah-
lished the rule OF John Company over
the peninsula. but we find that Orta
was rewarded by grant OF the Islands
Of Bombaim. now the British city OF
Bombay. This possession. then unim-
portant, he seems never 10 have oc-
cupied save rs lord proprietor. for
We find in this work reference 20 his
tenant "a bringing mangoes and other
fruits to his overload. In this ele-
CANT activity Or. Ora practised for al
least thirty-six years and is believed
-. Nass. al IN, nh 1[-O
He was a man not unknown In the
Indian life os his time. for his skill
won him high renown and his position
Of confidence in the yiceregal court
brought him into touch with the best
Of government and lrerature lie left
q great impress upon medicine, not
only in his lifetime but one even more
lasting through the centuries, for his
authority Is still cited in the history
of medical discovery. Late IN life he
enjoyed the friendship OF Camoens az
the particularly lmpor' ant period when
the poet rad returned from his Danish
ment n Macao and. restored 20 poll
teal favor. was spending happy years
at Goa in tho composition OF "Os
I.usiadas." His biosraph-r. Wilhelm
Storck, writes that much OF the ma
terisl OF the Last two cantos was
drawn from the library and the gar
den. above all from the ripe experience
Of the wise physician. This volume
contains an ode by the autho OF the
i.u5isIs ,.i5i 5sss.i - Count Rs5ou5o
but containing three stanzas or ripe
esteem addressed 70 Or. Orta with an
obvious garden play upon his name
ReCatlsa fhis ode has mr. besn iy0lrdsd