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Progress Of Navigation.
In 147 1 , Juan de Santarem and Pedro de Escobar penetrated as far as La Mina , in the fifth degree of latitude , and afterwards to Cape St . Catharine , in 25- degrees . Ferdinand Po also discovered the island that goes b y his name . About the same time the islands of St . Thomas , Anno Bono , and Principe , were discovered . Being now fully intent on the profit to be derived from the trade ,
discoveries were not pursued with any great degree of alacrity " . However , in 14 80 , James Cam ran as far along the coast as to the 22 d degree of south latitude . In i 486 , Bartholomew Diaz was sent out with three ships to discover India . _ He had the good fortune to discover the -southern promontory of Africa , which , from the storms he encountered there , he denominated
Cape Tormentoso , but which , from the prospect it afforded of opening the way to India , was , by the King of Portugal , called the Cape of Good Hope . Anno 1497 . King Emanuel , who , with the crown of Portugal , had inherited the ambition of enlarging his dominions , and the desire of finding a way by sea to the East Indiesappointed Vasco de Gamaa
, , gentleman of undaunted spirit , admiral of those ships he designed . for this expedition , which were only three , and a tender ; their names ' were , the St . Gabriel , the St . Raphael , and Berrio ; the captains , Vasco de Gama , admiral ; Paul de Gama , his brother ; and Nicholas Nunez ; and Gonzalo Nunez of the tender , which was laden with provisions . Gama sailed from Lisbon on the 8 th of July , and the first
land he came to after almost five months sail was the Bay of St . Helena , where he took some blacks . The 20 th of November he sailed thence , and doubled the Cape of Good Hope , and on the 25 th touched at the Bay of St . Bias , 60 leagues beyond the aforesaid cape , where he exchanged some merchandize with the natives . Here he took all the provisions out of the tender and burnt it . On Christmas-day they saw
the land , which , for that reason , they . called Terra do Natal , that is , Christmas Land ; then the river they named De los Reyes , that is , of the kings , because discovered on the Feast of the E piphany ; and after that Cape Corrientes , passing 50 . leagues beyond Zofala without seeing it , where they went up a river in which were boats with sails made of palm-tree leaves : the people were not so black as those they had
seen before , and understood the Arabic character , who said that , to the eastward lived people who ' sailed in vessels like those of the Portuguese . This river Gama called De Bons Sinays , or of Good Tokens , because it put him in hopes of finding what he came in search of . Sailing Jhence , he again came to an anchor among the islands , of St . George , opposite' to Mozambique , and , removing thence , anchored again above
the town of Mozambique in 14 degrees and a half of south latitude ; whence , after a short stay , with the assistance of a Moorish pilot , he touched -at Quilca and Monbaza ; and- having at Melinda settled a peace with the Moorish-king of that place , and taken in a Guzafat pilot , he set sail for India , and crossing that great gul ph of 700 leagues ' in 20 days , anchored two leagues ¦ below Calicut on the 20 th of-May . To this place had Gama discovered 1200 leagues beyond what was
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Progress Of Navigation.
In 147 1 , Juan de Santarem and Pedro de Escobar penetrated as far as La Mina , in the fifth degree of latitude , and afterwards to Cape St . Catharine , in 25- degrees . Ferdinand Po also discovered the island that goes b y his name . About the same time the islands of St . Thomas , Anno Bono , and Principe , were discovered . Being now fully intent on the profit to be derived from the trade ,
discoveries were not pursued with any great degree of alacrity " . However , in 14 80 , James Cam ran as far along the coast as to the 22 d degree of south latitude . In i 486 , Bartholomew Diaz was sent out with three ships to discover India . _ He had the good fortune to discover the -southern promontory of Africa , which , from the storms he encountered there , he denominated
Cape Tormentoso , but which , from the prospect it afforded of opening the way to India , was , by the King of Portugal , called the Cape of Good Hope . Anno 1497 . King Emanuel , who , with the crown of Portugal , had inherited the ambition of enlarging his dominions , and the desire of finding a way by sea to the East Indiesappointed Vasco de Gamaa
, , gentleman of undaunted spirit , admiral of those ships he designed . for this expedition , which were only three , and a tender ; their names ' were , the St . Gabriel , the St . Raphael , and Berrio ; the captains , Vasco de Gama , admiral ; Paul de Gama , his brother ; and Nicholas Nunez ; and Gonzalo Nunez of the tender , which was laden with provisions . Gama sailed from Lisbon on the 8 th of July , and the first
land he came to after almost five months sail was the Bay of St . Helena , where he took some blacks . The 20 th of November he sailed thence , and doubled the Cape of Good Hope , and on the 25 th touched at the Bay of St . Bias , 60 leagues beyond the aforesaid cape , where he exchanged some merchandize with the natives . Here he took all the provisions out of the tender and burnt it . On Christmas-day they saw
the land , which , for that reason , they . called Terra do Natal , that is , Christmas Land ; then the river they named De los Reyes , that is , of the kings , because discovered on the Feast of the E piphany ; and after that Cape Corrientes , passing 50 . leagues beyond Zofala without seeing it , where they went up a river in which were boats with sails made of palm-tree leaves : the people were not so black as those they had
seen before , and understood the Arabic character , who said that , to the eastward lived people who ' sailed in vessels like those of the Portuguese . This river Gama called De Bons Sinays , or of Good Tokens , because it put him in hopes of finding what he came in search of . Sailing Jhence , he again came to an anchor among the islands , of St . George , opposite' to Mozambique , and , removing thence , anchored again above
the town of Mozambique in 14 degrees and a half of south latitude ; whence , after a short stay , with the assistance of a Moorish pilot , he touched -at Quilca and Monbaza ; and- having at Melinda settled a peace with the Moorish-king of that place , and taken in a Guzafat pilot , he set sail for India , and crossing that great gul ph of 700 leagues ' in 20 days , anchored two leagues ¦ below Calicut on the 20 th of-May . To this place had Gama discovered 1200 leagues beyond what was