The Son of Gaspar Da Costa
In 1748 Gaspar da Costa sent his eldest son Baltazar together with a Dominican priest to France for educational purpose. In the next year the boy and his preceptor arrived to Lorient in France. The priest, however, disappeared with the goods and left Baltazar to fend for himself. The latter pursued the rest of his life as a ship's cook and a humble relief-seeker. His plight was noted by some French persons of standing, who presented him to the public as the "Prince of Timor", but Baltazar eventually died poor and forgotten, some time after 1778.
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