Works, Volume 80Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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... island . So great was the first conflagration , that [ I was told ] this Zuan- conzales , who was then on the island , was forced , with all the men , women , and children , to flee its fury and to take refuge in the sea , where they ...
... island . So great was the first conflagration , that [ I was told ] this Zuan- conzales , who was then on the island , was forced , with all the men , women , and children , to flee its fury and to take refuge in the sea , where they ...
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... islands . This they did , without ascertaining anything except that the island was uninhabited , and that there was an exceeding number of doves , which allowed themselves to be taken by hand , being unused to man . They brought back to ...
... islands . This they did , without ascertaining anything except that the island was uninhabited , and that there was an exceeding number of doves , which allowed themselves to be taken by hand , being unused to man . They brought back to ...
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... island was renamed Ilha do Principe . The captaincy of the Island of S. Thomé was granted to João de Paiva in 1485 , and in the following year he received the donation of half the island for colonisation ( Alguns documentos , pp . 56-7 ) ...
... island was renamed Ilha do Principe . The captaincy of the Island of S. Thomé was granted to João de Paiva in 1485 , and in the following year he received the donation of half the island for colonisation ( Alguns documentos , pp . 56-7 ) ...
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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