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ala das Sereias; dining-room; Pateo, baths; Sala dos Arabes; Pateo de Diana; chapel; kitchen--Castles at Guimaraes and at Barcellos--Villa de Feira 116-128 CHAPTER VIII OTHER MOORISH BUILDINGS Commoner in Alemtejo--Castle, Alvito--Not Sansovino's Palace--Evora, Pacos Reaes, Cordovis, Sempre Nova, Sao Joao Evangelista, Sao Francisco, Sao Braz 129-135 CHAPTER IX MOORISH CARPENTRY Examples found all over the country--At Aguas Santas, Azurara, Caminha and Funchal--Cintra, Sala dos Cysnes, Sala dos Escudos--Coimbra, Misericordia, hall of University--Ville do Conde Santa Clara, Aveiro convent 136-142 CHAPTER X EARLY MANOELINO Joao II. continues the policy of Prince Henry the Navigator--Bartholomeu Diaz, Vasco da Gama--Accession of Dom Manoel--Discovery of route to India, and of Brazil--Great wealth of King--Fails to unite all the kingdoms of the Peninsula--Characteristic features of Manoelino--House of Garcia de Resende, Evora--Caldas da Rainha--Setubal, Jesus--Beja, Conceicao, Castle, etc.--Cintra, Palace--Gollega, Church--Elvas, Cathedral--Santarem, Marvilla--Lisbon, Madre de Deus--Coimbra, University Chapel--Setubal, Sao Juliao 143-156 CHAPTER XI THOMAR AND THE CONQUEST OF INDIA Vasco da Gama's successful voyage to Calicut, 1497--Other expeditions lead to discovery of Brazil--Titles conferred on Dom Manoel by Pope Alexander VI.--Ormuz taken--Strange forms at Thomar not Indian--Templars suppressed and Order of Christ founded instead--Prince Henry Grand Master--Spiritual supremacy of Thomar over all conquests, made or to be made--Templar church added to by Prince Henry, and more extensively by Dom Manoel--Joao de Castilho builds Coro--Stalls burnt by French--South door, chapter-house and its windows--Much of the detail emblematic of the discoveries, etc., made in the East and in the West 157-170 CHAPTER XII THE ADDITIONS TO BATALHA Dom Duarte's tomb-house unfinished--Work resumed by Dom Manoel--The two Matheus Fernandes, architects--The Pateo--The great entrance--Meaning of 'Tanyas Erey'--Piers in Octagon--How was the Octagon to be roofed?--The great Cloister, with its tracery--Whence derived 171-180 CHAPTER XIII BELEM Tor
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