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... Africa , although they had long known it to be a region of great commercial activity . That there was great wealth ... Africa to - day . Themselves confined to the coast , the Christians found in the Jews a valuable source of information ...
... Africa , although they had long known it to be a region of great commercial activity . That there was great wealth ... Africa to - day . Themselves confined to the coast , the Christians found in the Jews a valuable source of information ...
Page xvii
... Africa , 1448-90 Prince Henry's resolve to devote his energies to the exploration of Africa probably dated from 1415 when , aged twenty - one years , he won his spurs at the capture of Ceuta . In Africa he first heard of the ancient ...
... Africa , 1448-90 Prince Henry's resolve to devote his energies to the exploration of Africa probably dated from 1415 when , aged twenty - one years , he won his spurs at the capture of Ceuta . In Africa he first heard of the ancient ...
Page 152
... Africa , 1325–54 . Trsl . H. A. R. Gibb ( Broadway Travellers ) . London , 1929 . Irvine , F. R. Text - book of West African agriculture . Oxford , 1934 . Jobson , Richard . The Golden Trade , 1623. Teignmouth , 1904 . Kunstmann ...
... Africa , 1325–54 . Trsl . H. A. R. Gibb ( Broadway Travellers ) . London , 1929 . Irvine , F. R. Text - book of West African agriculture . Oxford , 1934 . Jobson , Richard . The Golden Trade , 1623. Teignmouth , 1904 . Kunstmann ...
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Africa Alvise appears Arabs Arguim Azanaghi Azurara baptism Barbary Barros Bemoy Benincasa Beny Blacks brought Budomel Cabo Cadamosto called Çanagá Canary canoes Cantor Cape Blanco Cape Verde Islands Capo captain Caramança caravels carried Cauo century CHAPTER chart chief Christians Chronicle coast Cortesão desert Diogo de Azambuja Diogo Gomes discovered discovery Duarte Pacheco elephant faith Fernão Gomes fortress galleys Gambia gave Genoese gold Gonçalo Gonçalo Coelho Guiné Guinea Hakluyt honour horses Ilha inhabitants interior Isola King Afonso King João Kingdom of Senega Kukia land leagues Leo Africanus Lisbon Lord Infante Madeira Mansa Marciana Melli merchants miles Moors Mosto mouth narrative navigation negroes Niger Noli Nuno Tristão Portugal Portuguese Prince Henry probably reached river sailed salt Senegal sent ships Sierra Leone sight slaves Taghaza Tekrur things thither Timbuktu trade traffic trees Tristão voyage wished