Gaspar Correia or Gaspar Corrêa (c. 1496 - c. 1563 Goa) was a
Portuguese historian, author of "Lendas da Índia ( "Legends of
India"), one of the earliest and most important works about
Portuguese rule in Asia, being referred to as a Portuguese
Polybius. There is little information about the life of the
author. It is known that he lived mostly in Portuguese India,
were he reported to have come very young, around 1512-14, to
serve as a soldier and was chosen as secretary to Afonso de
Albuquerque, of which he was very proud. He come back to
Portugal in 1529 but returned to India. His work Lendas da
Índia, though written in a rude style, is considered an
important contemporary reference, having profited from thirty
five years of Correia's work in India, and privileged sources
unknown to Fernão Lopes de Castanheda or João de Barros. He made
the first European account on Asiatic Cholera. One theory states
that he was murdered in Malacca, by order of governor Estêvão da
Gama, the son of Vasco da Gama. Although some