Setting.--The Conquista [de las Indias de Persia e Arabia]: critical edition and translation.--Commentary.--The narrative in history and literature.--Facsimile of Figueroa's narrative ([64] p. following p. 244) [reproduced from the copy in the Palha Collection of the Harvard University Library].--Appendix. Portuguese historians and the Conquista.--Bibliography (p.[249]--58).--Notes.