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Page xviii
... Portuguese policy toyed with the idea of territorial expansion in northern Africa , with the object of securing the trans - Saharan traffic for them- selves , an alternative method and one promising more success , was to attempt to ...
... Portuguese policy toyed with the idea of territorial expansion in northern Africa , with the object of securing the trans - Saharan traffic for them- selves , an alternative method and one promising more success , was to attempt to ...
Page xix
... Portuguese came to learn of the various potentates of north central Africa , they were eager , on very slender grounds , to identify them in turn with this monarch . The problem was not finally solved until the journey of Covilhã ...
... Portuguese came to learn of the various potentates of north central Africa , they were eager , on very slender grounds , to identify them in turn with this monarch . The problem was not finally solved until the journey of Covilhã ...
Page 159
... Portuguese mission to , 144 Soto de Cassa , Abbot of , 100 Southern Cross , 61 Stachires , identified by Barros with Gambia R. , 138 Strabo , quoted on oases , 139 Sudan , Western , Malfante on , 88 ; see Gold Taghaza ( Tagaza ) ...
... Portuguese mission to , 144 Soto de Cassa , Abbot of , 100 Southern Cross , 61 Stachires , identified by Barros with Gambia R. , 138 Strabo , quoted on oases , 139 Sudan , Western , Malfante on , 88 ; see Gold Taghaza ( Tagaza ) ...
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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