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... taken down by Martin Behaim from an oral statement by Gomes many years after the events with which it deals , and Behaim's version was later trans- lated into Latin by Valentim Fernandes . The narrative ter- minates about the year 1475 ...
... taken down by Martin Behaim from an oral statement by Gomes many years after the events with which it deals , and Behaim's version was later trans- lated into Latin by Valentim Fernandes . The narrative ter- minates about the year 1475 ...
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... taken prisoners , as I have already said , and sold into slavery ' . It is asserted that when for the first time they saw sails , that is , ships , on the sea ( which neither they nor their forefathers had ever seen before ) , they ...
... taken prisoners , as I have already said , and sold into slavery ' . It is asserted that when for the first time they saw sails , that is , ships , on the sea ( which neither they nor their forefathers had ever seen before ) , they ...
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... taken place between Semanagu and Sambegeny , and , there- fore , he believed the account . Such are the things which were told me by the negroes who were with me at Cantor . I questioned the negroes at Cantor as to the road which led to ...
... taken place between Semanagu and Sambegeny , and , there- fore , he believed the account . Such are the things which were told me by the negroes who were with me at Cantor . I questioned the negroes at Cantor as to the road which led to ...
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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