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Which Portuguese traveller described the fortified city of Hampi in the sixteenth century?

ADomingo Paes
BVasco da Gama
CJohn Ovington
DDuarte Barbosa
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Domingo Paes
1. He praised its strong masonry walls. 2. Domingo Paes wrote the account. 3. Ovington described Surat in 1689. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 6, Towns, Traders and Craftspersons._
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