"Better the red face than the black heart, Mister Kondit," he says - an old Portuguese saying it is, he says.

"Well," put in Good, "I think that is the lot; I don't see any diamonds, unless the old Portuguese put them all into his bag."

Equally fascinating is his impressive library of old Portuguese and French titles.

Friar Rosa Viterbo (1744/1822) in the Elucidário suggests that in the old Portuguese, it meant "forth, before or in the presence.

Steele wanted to know about an old white-headed Portuguese who needed to see him so badly and who was apparently frightened for his life.

He again saw the fazender, the clerk, the partner of the old Portuguese, toiling hard for the prosperity of the establishment at Iquitos.

In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used.

In the 70s competed 5 times (1971/72, 1974/75,1975/76, 1976/77 e 1978/79) in the old Portuguese 2nd Division.

Painted signs in old Portuguese still survived on the gray stones of the barrier.

He was descended from the oldest Portuguese and Galician nobility.