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| Date | Description | Source | Reference |
| 1558 A.D. | Nine bell tents and four wedge tents.
Dark blue wedge tent, yellow detail at visible end, square banners fly from with end of roof. Red wedge tent, no detail discernible. Blue bell tent, with yellow triangular banner flying from apex, dark band about roof, roof edge delineated, face design on wall. Red bell tent, very cone shaped, dark band about roof, yellow triangles hang down from roof edge. Blue bell tent, no detail discernible. Blue bell tent, a blue triangular banner flies from the apex, some roof and wall decoration evident but detail is obscured. Blue bell tent, a yellow square banner flies from the apex, some roof and wall decoration evident but detail is obscured. Red wedge tent, banners fly from each end of the roof. Indiscernible bell tent with a triangular banner. Red bell tent, square banner flies from the apex, dark band about roof, yellow and black decoration on red walls. Bell tent, yellow roof, triangular roof edge decoration, blue walls, dark band above bottom edge. Yellow wedge tent, no other details evident. Red bell tent, blue triangular banner, flies from the apex, dark band about the roof edge and just above the wall’s bottom edge. |
“Figure 69. Atlas by Diogo Homen. ‘South America’, Portugal about 1558...Additional MS 5415A, folios 23b and 24.” | Backhouse, J., The Illuminated Manuscript, Oxford, 1979, p. 79. |
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