The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea, Issue 100Hakluyt Society, 1899 |
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according Affonso afterwards already Alvaro Fernandez ancient Andrea Bianco Arab Arguim arrived Atlantic Islands Atlas Azanegues Azores Azurara Barros began boats booty Cadamosto called Canarians Canaries Cape Bojador Cape Branco Cape Non Cape Verde captains capture caravels Catalan Ceuta CHAPTER Christians Chronicle coast of Africa conquest Dinis Diaz discovery Eannes Edrisi especially expedition exploration fifteenth century Genoese geographical Gil Eannes Gomez Pirez Gonçalo Gonçalvez Guinea Hakluyt Henry honour Infant Introduction to vol Isle João John King kingdom knight Lagos Lançarote land leagues Leo Africanus Lisbon lord Madeira maps Marocco Martins Mediterranean Moors Moslem Navigator Negroes Nile Nordenskjöld noticed passage Pedro Periplus portolano Portugal Portuguese Prince Henry's probably reached Rio do Ouro river Sagres sailed saith Santarem says seemeth Senegal ships shore Stevam Sudan Sueiro da Costa things Tider Timbuktu toil took voyage West Africa
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Page 335 - Eden, cherubim were placed at the east of the garden " to keep the way of the tree of life
Page 253 - ... entered twenty-two men, to wit, ten in one and twelve in the other. And as they began to take their way up the river, the tide was rising with the which they entered, and they made for some habitations that they espied on the right hand. And it came to pass that before they went on shore, there appeared from the other side twelve boats, in the which there would be as many as seventy or eighty Guineas, all Negroes, with bows in their hands.
Page cxlvi - When they cannot see the sun clearly in cloudy weather, or at night, and cannot tell which way their prow is tending, they put a Needle above a Magnet which revolves till its point looks North and then stops.
Page 138 - Portuguese attitude: . . . although they are more in number than we by a third yet they are but Moors and we are Christians one of whom ought to suffice for two of them. For God is He in whose power lieth victory, and he knoweth our good wills in His holy service.
Page v - Ceuta he always kept ships well armed against the Infidel, both for war, and because he had also a wish to know the land that lay beyond the isles of Canary and that Cape called Bojador, for that up to his time, neither by writings, nor by the memory of man, was known with any certainty the nature of the land beyond that Cape.
Page 192 - Gomez Pirez sought to show that he desired to go among them on peaceful terms, and so placed upon the shore a cake and a mirror and a sheet of paper on which he drew a cross. And the natives when they came there and found these things, broke up the cake and threw it far away, and with their spears they cast at the mirror till they had smashed it, and the paper they tore. "Since it is so", said Gomez Pirez to his bowmen, "shoot at them that they may at least learn that we can hurt those who will not...
Page 177 - Azanegue prisoners. And so, as they were going along scanning the coast to see if they could discern the river, they perceived before them, as it might be about two leagues of land measure, a certain colour in the water of the sea which was different from the rest, for this was of the colour of mud. And they thought that this might arise from shoals, so they took their soundings for the safety of...
Page iv - The tawny Moors, his prisoners, told him of certain tall palms growing at the mouth of the Senegal or western Nile, by which he was able to guide the caravels which he sent out to find that river.
Page 254 - Guineas crossed to the other side and put on shore those it was carrying, and thence they began to shoot arrows at our men in the boats. And the others who remained in the boats bestirred themselves as much as they could to get at our men, and as soon as they perceived themselves to be within reach, they discharged that accursed ammunition of theirs all full of poison upon the bodies of our countrymen. And so they held on in pursuit of them until they had reached the caravel which was lying outside...
Page xxxv - It was in Portugal," says Ferdinand Columbus, "that the admiral began to surmise that if men could sail so far south, one might also sail west and find lands in that direction.