Cadamosto

Cadamosto returned to Portugal in 1456 with staggering news: He had discovered the island of Antilia, far to the west across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cadamosto expressly refers to the chart he kept of this voyage.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

The negro lands and tribes south of the Senegal, and especially the country and people of Budomel, a friendly chief reigning about 50 m. beyond the river, are next treated with equal wealth of interesting detail, and Cadamosto thence proceeded towards the Gambia, which he ascended some distance (here also examining races, manners and customs with minute attention), but found the natives extremely hostile, and so returned direct to Portugal.

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But Cadamosto pushed on for some four hundred miles by the low, sandy shore to the Senegal River.

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

In 1455 Cadamosto sailed from Portugal for Madeira, now "thickly peopled with Portuguese."

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

Besides the accounts of his two voyages, Cadamosto left a narrative of

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Cadamosto landed and pushed some two hundred and fifty miles up the

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

Then he laid down his work, slid open the table drawer and began to lean over his copies of maps, inscribed with such signatures as Giovanni Leardo, Fra Mauro, Cadamosto.

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In two subsequent voyages, Cadamosto (1455-6) and Diogo Gomes

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So next morning, says Cadamosto, that I might satisfy my own mind, I bade ten of my men, armed with missiles and cross-bows, to explore the inland.

Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911