Osvaldo Felipe da Conceição

Osvaldo Felipe da Conceição (1546-1612) was a Portuguese ambassador to the empires of Khmer, Srivijaya , and China between 1589 and 1606. In addition to overseeing the beginning of Portugal's far eastern empire by founding the town of São Pedro on Aeoteria, he wrote a famous chronicle of his years in the East, noted today for its barbed wit and shockingly coarse language. He died shortly after his return to Lisbon in the autumn of 1612.