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A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
called Porto Santo , or Holy Island . They found inhabitants on it , neither civilized nor quite barbarous , but the soil appeared remarkably fruitful . On their return , the prince was hi g hly elated with his discovery , and next year , 1419 , sent Gonzales and Vaz on another voyage . to Porto Santo . They saw at a distance something like a cloudand directing their
, course towards it , they discovered another island , to which , from the vast woods which covered it , they called Madera , that word in their language signifying wood . This island lies south of the former , and the two together are b y modern geographers called the Madeira Islands . These two discoverers obtained grants of different parts of the islands , under the title of Capitanos . Gonzales in his travels is said
to have found the remains of the chapel and tomb erected by Macham . The discoverers began to settle , and , in order to clear their lands , set fire to the trees , which fire is said to have continued burning for some years , and now caused as great a scarcity of wood as there was before a plenty . Prince Henry caused sugar canes to be carried from Sicilv , aud planted .
there , which thrived exceedingly . "We find on record a trading voyage made in i 439 by one Querino , from Candia , who was shipwrecked on the coast of Norway . This voyage did not add any new store to the science pf geography , but is so very curious a fragment , that we shall take a future opportunity to lay it before our readers . The prince employed twelve years without making any further
discoveries till about 143 2 , when Gilianes , in a bark , passed the hitherto invincible Cape Bojador , an action , says our author , which in common opinion was looked on as equal to the labours of Hercules . About this time , Prince Henry obtained of Pope Martin V . a perpetual donation to the crown of Portugal , of whatever discoveries should be made from this cape to the East Indies , inclusively . This step was
taken both as a security against the interfering of other nations , and an incentive to the common people to engage in the services . In 1434 , Gilianes went again in his bark with Alonso Gonzales Baldaya , in a larger vessel , and passed thirty leagues beyond the cape : where landing , they saw a great track of men and cattle ; and , without any farther enquiry , returned home , giving the name of Angra de Ruy-vos , or the Bay of Gurnets , to that coast , from the fish they found
there . Next year , 1435 , the design was continued , and they passed twelve leagues farther . Here they put ashore two men on horseback , who , going on till the afternoon , saw nineteen of the natives armed with javelins . These flying , were pursued , and some of them wounded , so was one of the Portuguese . They ran along the coast twelve leagues fartherwhereat the mouth of a riverthey saw about five thousand
, , , sea wolves , many whereof they killed , and brought away their fkins ; which , being a novelty , were then held in great esteem . ' Goino- farther into the land , they found fishing nets drying , but no people ; and their provisions being spent , they were obliged to return to the prince , without making any farther progress .
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A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
called Porto Santo , or Holy Island . They found inhabitants on it , neither civilized nor quite barbarous , but the soil appeared remarkably fruitful . On their return , the prince was hi g hly elated with his discovery , and next year , 1419 , sent Gonzales and Vaz on another voyage . to Porto Santo . They saw at a distance something like a cloudand directing their
, course towards it , they discovered another island , to which , from the vast woods which covered it , they called Madera , that word in their language signifying wood . This island lies south of the former , and the two together are b y modern geographers called the Madeira Islands . These two discoverers obtained grants of different parts of the islands , under the title of Capitanos . Gonzales in his travels is said
to have found the remains of the chapel and tomb erected by Macham . The discoverers began to settle , and , in order to clear their lands , set fire to the trees , which fire is said to have continued burning for some years , and now caused as great a scarcity of wood as there was before a plenty . Prince Henry caused sugar canes to be carried from Sicilv , aud planted .
there , which thrived exceedingly . "We find on record a trading voyage made in i 439 by one Querino , from Candia , who was shipwrecked on the coast of Norway . This voyage did not add any new store to the science pf geography , but is so very curious a fragment , that we shall take a future opportunity to lay it before our readers . The prince employed twelve years without making any further
discoveries till about 143 2 , when Gilianes , in a bark , passed the hitherto invincible Cape Bojador , an action , says our author , which in common opinion was looked on as equal to the labours of Hercules . About this time , Prince Henry obtained of Pope Martin V . a perpetual donation to the crown of Portugal , of whatever discoveries should be made from this cape to the East Indies , inclusively . This step was
taken both as a security against the interfering of other nations , and an incentive to the common people to engage in the services . In 1434 , Gilianes went again in his bark with Alonso Gonzales Baldaya , in a larger vessel , and passed thirty leagues beyond the cape : where landing , they saw a great track of men and cattle ; and , without any farther enquiry , returned home , giving the name of Angra de Ruy-vos , or the Bay of Gurnets , to that coast , from the fish they found
there . Next year , 1435 , the design was continued , and they passed twelve leagues farther . Here they put ashore two men on horseback , who , going on till the afternoon , saw nineteen of the natives armed with javelins . These flying , were pursued , and some of them wounded , so was one of the Portuguese . They ran along the coast twelve leagues fartherwhereat the mouth of a riverthey saw about five thousand
, , , sea wolves , many whereof they killed , and brought away their fkins ; which , being a novelty , were then held in great esteem . ' Goino- farther into the land , they found fishing nets drying , but no people ; and their provisions being spent , they were obliged to return to the prince , without making any farther progress .