Works, Volume 80Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page 58
... seen in the canoes . Having joined our consort , she made sail in company and we began to enter the river : the small caravel led the way over the shallows , we following one behind the other . Having sailed about four miles upstream ...
... seen in the canoes . Having joined our consort , she made sail in company and we began to enter the river : the small caravel led the way over the shallows , we following one behind the other . Having sailed about four miles upstream ...
Page 65
... seen were large and of fine flavour . The river was sufficiently deep for a vessel of 150 tons burthen to enter with ease — a good bowshot in width . We stayed there for two days to rest , laying in the aforementioned supplies ...
... seen were large and of fine flavour . The river was sufficiently deep for a vessel of 150 tons burthen to enter with ease — a good bowshot in width . We stayed there for two days to rest , laying in the aforementioned supplies ...
Page 74
... seen stretching away . Nevertheless we went well beyond the point , for around it the sea was breaking more than four miles off ' . For this reason , we kept two men continually in the bows , and one at the masthead , to look out for ...
... seen stretching away . Nevertheless we went well beyond the point , for around it the sea was breaking more than four miles off ' . For this reason , we kept two men continually in the bows , and one at the masthead , to look out for ...
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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