418 pigafetta’s voyage round the world.

The kingdom of Organ of Behaim is called by Barros (chap, iv.) the kingdom ofOgan.

Behaim by his globe appears to have had fome idea of Ethiopia, a country the ex-ploration of which was further purfued under Bartolomeo Dias , in i486, and laid downchiefly from the maps of Africa of Ptolomey , efpecially the weftern part of that country.Dias moreover, jointly with his brother Peter and the Infant Don Juan, difcovered theCape of Good Hope , which however they did not double.

In 1485 Martin Behaim was made a knight of the order of Chrifl: by the King ; butit is not poflible this event ffiould have taken place, as affirmed in a certain Germanmanufcript of that time, on the 18th February; for a month earlier than this date hewas on board the fleet off the point of Africa . Refende * * * § , who has mentioned the moftminute circumftances that related to the reign of Juan III., fays nothing of this creation,though he has not omitted to detail the honour and dignities heaped on Don GonzaleVas de Caftelbranco; but he, as well as Barros, Vafconcellos, and many other writers,are filent refpecting Behaim, who was the cofmographer of the fleet, on which too, verypoffibly, his father Job de Huerter was embarked. According to a family tradition theKing of Portugal, in a letter addrefled to Behaim in his own hand writing, is reputed tahave faid: “ Having fo long obferved your integrity, we are induced to believe thatwherever you may be there is ourfelf&c. f a circumftance which feems incredible,,feeing the chief hiftorians of Portugal are wholly filent on the fubjeft.

Portugal was not ungrateful to the Germans , who had been ufeful in promoting itspr,ofperity. On the 2d February, 1503, Wolf Holzlhuer, a patrician of Nuremberg ,as a reward for his courage and the importance of his fervices, received a diploma, bywhich King Emanuel allowed him to bear on his lhield a Moor’s head and the crofs ofthe order of Chrifl:; and this grant was afterwards ratified by Charles V. in 1547.

It does not feem likely that Martin Behaim failed with the after-expeditions toAfrica J. He remained at Fayal, where, in i486, he married the daughter of Job deHuerter, who in 1489 gave him a fon, Martin III.

In 1491, or perhaps in 1490, our cavalhero repaired to Nuremberg to fee his family.

On the 3d Auguft, 1492, Colon fet fail from Palos, and difcovered the ifland Lucaya,called alfo Guanahani, to which he gave the name of San Salvador . In a very ufefulwork printed not long ago at Venice, allufion is made to our Behaim . “ There are’ 11it fays, “ fome who believe Colon to have been inftigated to think of the new worldfrom a cafual fight of fome foreign charts defigned either by fome friend, by MartinoAndalouza a Cantabrian, by a Portuguefe of unknown name, or by AlphonsoSanchez de Huelba an Andalufian §.” On the 3d March of the following yearColon entered the port of Reflelo (now Belem) on the Tagus ; but he left it fhortly after,

* Chronica que trafta da vida e das grandiffimas virtudes do chriftianiffimo Dom Juano o Sscundodefte nome. Feyta por Garcia de Refende em Lilboa, 1596, folio, cap.lix. p. 39. b„

•j- Quia perfpedta nobis jam diu integritas tua nos inducit ad credendum quod ubi tu es, eft perfonanoftra, &c.

J In the month of May, 1487, Pedro de Cavilham and Alphonfo de Payva failed on new difcoveries.They took with them a chart which had been made from a map of the world by Caffadillo Bifhop of Vif e °»an excellent aftronomer. This chart it might probably be which was fufpended in the cabinet of D° nEmanuel King of Portugal, and attributed to our Behaim .

In 1488 Vas de Cunha and Don Juan de Bemoin were fent to conftrudl a fort on the river Sanaga ; hutthe attempt did not fucceed. In 1490 the King difpatched Ruiz de Souza to Congo .

§ Fafti Novi Orbis,et ordinationis apoftolicarum, adlndias pertinentium,breviariumcum annotationibu 5 -Opera D. Cyriaci Morelli, prefbyteri, olim in univerfitate Neo-Cordubenfi in Tucumania profeftbi' ls *Venitiis 1776, 4 May, p.lxi.

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