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Iflands). Item, in this country it is fummer ’when winter reigns in Europe ; and all thebirds and quadrupeds are different from ours. Here alfo much amber grows, called inPortugal , algalhia.

Cabo de Catherina, Serra de Sancto Spirito, Praia (bank) de Imperator , Ponta deBearo, Angra de Santa Marta, Golfo de San Nicolo, Serra Corafo da Corte Reial, Golfode Judeo, Ponta Formofa, Deferta d’Arena, Ponta Bianca, Golfo de San Martin, PontaFormofa, Golfo das Almadias, Rio de Patron, Rio Ponderofo, Muoruodo, Rio daMadalena, Angra and Rio de Fernande, Ponta de Miguel, Infula de Capre. Inlandare moreover written, Luna monies, Abafia Ethiopia , Agifinba. Here is afandy and aridcountry called the Torrid Zone , badly peopled,fave in that part where water is found.

Cabo Delta, Ponta Alta, o Gracil, Cartel Podorofo de San Auguftino, Angra Manga,Cabo de Lion, Rio Certo, Terra Fragofa. This is the Cape, denominated of GoodHope by Juan II., otherwife called the Cape of Storms . Here the Portuguefe flag ispainted, and above it a veflel with the following infcription :—

“ Here the columns of the King of Portugal were raifed on the 18th January, inthe year of our Lord 1485.”

“ In the year from the birth of J. C. 1484, the illuftrious Don Juan, King of Por-tugal , caufed two veflels,” &c. (See page 397).

The remainder of the coaft, as far as Sinus Lagoa, is laid down in the followingorder:—

Monte Nigro (by the fide of it) Lacarto, Narbion, Agifenba, Blufla, Ricon, CaboPonero, Terra Agua, Rio de Bethlehem, Pouarafzoni. Angra de Gatto, Roca, Rio deHatal, Orenas, San Steffan , Rio dos Montes, Rio de Requiem, Cavo Ledo, Rio Tu-cunero, Prom, San Bartolomeo Viego. In this country the inhabitants have fummer whenit is winter in Europe ; and when fummer reigns with us, it is winter with them. Beneaththe infcription there is alfo a fhip painted, with thefe words :—

Oceanus maris afperi Meridionalis.

« Thus far the veflels of the Portuguefe advanced; here they erected their column,and by the end of nineteen months returned to their own country.”

I deem it expedient to throw fome additional light on the places marked on the globeof Behaim , from what is mentioned by Barros *. The King ordered that columns offtone, twice the height of a man, on which the arms of Portugal were fculptured,fliould be taken on board the two veflels. Till this period, Cape Saint Catherine wasthe extremity of the coaft explored. Diego Cam or Can proceeded as far as to themouth of the Zaira, and erected the columns, which occafioned the river to be knownfor a long time by the name of the River of Columns (it is the Rio de Padrono, calledby Behaim Rio do Patron J, and difcovered the kingdom of Congo.

The Ponta Formofa of Behaim f was no doubt the ifland difcovered by Fernan del Po,

111 1485, and which received his name. There is fome doubt alfo refpecfing the Angraa nd Rio Fernande, marked on the globe of Behaim .

Martin Behaim likewife makes mention of two caravellas J. Thefe two veflels werecommanded by Diego Cam and Juan Alphonfo Davero, orDaveiro§. This lattercommander difcovered the kingdom of Benin, two hundred miles from Fort St. Georgede la Mina, and brought the firft Guinea pepper to Portugal. Behaim marks downAngra de Gatto (Cat Bay), where, according to Barros, a faftory was eftablilhed.

* Decad. i. lib. iii. c. ii.

t See page 416. J See page 397.

$ Vafconcellos, Vida y Acciones del Rey Don Juan el Segundo, lib. vs.

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