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know what objects we came in fearch of among them. Thus equipped, we failed fromthe port of Lifbon, (leering for Madeira, where the Portugal fugar grows ; and afterdoubling the Fortunate Iflands, and the barren iflands the Canaries, we found fomeMoorifh Kings, to whom we made prefents, and from whom we received others inexchange. We arrived in the country called the kingdom of Gambia , where growsthe cardamom-tree; it is eight hundred German leagues diftant from Portugal : afterthis we arrived in the dominions of the King of Furfur, which is twelve hundred Ger-man miles or leagues further diftant, and in which the pepper grows called Portugal pepper. Beyond is a country in which we found the cinnamon-bark. Being now twothoufand three hundred leagues away from Portugal , we tacked about, and, after aVoyage of nineteen months, returned to our king and country.”
On the other fide of the fouth cape of Africa , near Riotucunero (now Targonero)and Porto Bartholo Viego, the Portuguefe flag is painted, and by the fide of it appearsthe following:—
“ Thus far the Portuguefe veffels advanced, and here they erected their column; andafter a voyage of nineteen months they returned to their own country.”
Cape Verd.
cc It (hould be known that the fea, called the Ocean, which lies between Cape Verdand this country, has a rapid current towards the fouth. When Hercules had arrivedthus far with his (hips, and noticed this phenomenon, he returned, and planted his co-lumns, the infcription on which * proves that Hercules was not imagined to have pro-ceeded farther; but the writer of this article was difpatched beyond this point in the year*485, by the King of Portugal .”
From the globe of Behaim, on which America is entirely left out, it is apparent thathe had no knowledge of this divifion of the globe at the period of its conftruction, andmay readily conclude that Stuvenius would never have written his treatife De veroNovi Orbis Inventore, if he had feen this globe, of which he knew only by report, ashe himfelf acknowledges f. What Behaim fays of the ifland Antilia, or Septe Ritade,us well as of that of Saint Brandan, is given by him merely from the relation of others.
“ The Fortunate Iflands, or thofe of Cape Verd, polfefs a healthy climate, and have. een inhabited by the Portuguefe ever fince the year 1472.”
The Iflands Azores , or Catherides.
“ Thefe iflands were peopled in the year 1466;hem, after much entreaty, to Ifabella, the Duchel
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me an obftinate war raged in Flanders, with a great dearth ; and the faid Duchefsent - from Flanders to thefe iflands a number of people, men and women, and of alla des; with them likewife (he fent priefts, and every appendage to religious worfhip,n d feveral veffels (reighted with furniture, and all things requifite for the culture of thef Kr an< ^ conftruction of houfes; (he moreover made them a prefent of neceffaries forof i/^ er ^ ce fufficient for two years, on condition that they, for time to come, (hould think£• er at mafs, and every one fay for her one ave-maria. The number of perfonsanrf ° n 'k' 8 occafion amounted to two thoufand; fo that what with their defendants,,thofe who have been added to their number from abroad, the population now
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