A note on Captain Light
This is a brief note by C. E. Wurtzburg on Captain Light, published in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 21 (1948), p. 116.
Summary
The surviving text is a single fragmentary passage that appears to be the concluding portion of a longer note. It references a Portuguese figure, D. Joao da Gama, described as a descendant of Don Vasco (Vasco da Gama), who served as Captain of a Fortress between 1579 and 1582, acting with the connivance or order of the Captain of the Fortress. He is noted as having been survived by his wife Anna Vas, identified as a liberated slave, and a son named Antonio (p. 116).
The fragment provides no further context on the identity of “Captain Light” or the specific fortress in question, suggesting the bulk of the note was either not digitized or the page contains only this closing passage.