See also:

• CADAMOSTO (or CA DA MosTO), ALVISE (1432-1477)

CADAMOSTO (or CA DA MosTO), ALVISE (1432-1477)  , a Venetian explorer, navigator and writer, celebrated for his voyages in the Portuguese service to See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa . In 1454 he sailed from See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice for See also:

• FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

Flanders, and, being detained by contrary winds off Cape St See also:

• VINCENT (or VINCENTIUS), ST
• VINCENT, GEORGE (1796-1831?)
• VINCENT, MARY ANN (1818-1887)

Vincent, was enlisted by See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry the Navigator among his explorers, and given command of an expedition which sailed (22nd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1455) for the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south . Visiting the See also:

• MADEIRA
• MADEIRA, or THE MADE1RAS

Madeira See also:

• GROUP

group and the See also:

• CANARY
• CANARY (Serinus canarius)

Canary Islands (of both which he gives an elaborate See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, especially concerned with See also:

• EUROPEAN

European colonization and native customs), and See also:

• COASTING

coasting the West See also:

• SAHARA

Sahara (whose tribes, See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade and trade-routes he likewise describes in detail), he arrived at the See also:

• SENEGAL

Senegal, whose See also:

• LOWER

lower course had already, as he tells us, been explored by the Portuguese 6o m. up . The See also:

• NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

negro lands and tribes south of the Senegal, and especially the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country and See also:

• PEOPLE

people of Budomel, a friendly See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief reigning about 50 M. beyond the See also:

• RIVER

river, are next treated with equal See also:

• WEALTH

wealth of interesting detail, and See also:

• CADAMOSTO (or CA DA MosTO), ALVISE (1432-1477)

Cadamosto thence proceeded towards the See also:

• GAMBIA

Gambia, which he ascended some distance (here also examining races, See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners and customs with See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention), but found the natives extremely hostile, and so returned See also:

• DIRECT

direct to See also:

• PORTUGAL

Portugal . Cadamosto expressly refers to the See also:

• CHART (from Lat. carta, charta, a map)

chart he kept of this voyage . At the mouth of the Gambia he records an observation of the " See also:

• SOUTHERN

Southern See also:

• CHARIOT (derived from an O. Fr. word, formed from char, a car)

Chariot " (Southern See also:

• CROSS

Cross) . Next See also:

• YEAR

year (1456) he went out again under the patronage of Prince Henry . Doubling Cape Blanco he was driven out to See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea by contrary winds, and thus made the first known See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of the Cape Verde Islands . Having explored Boavista and See also:

• SANTIAGO, or SANTIAGO DE CHILE

Santiago, and found them uninhabited, he returned to the See also:

• AFRICAN

African mainland, and pushed on to the Gambia, Rio Grande and Geba . Returning thence to Portugal, he seems to have remained there till 1463, when he reappeared at Venice . He died in 1477 . Besides the accounts of his two voyages, Cadamosto See also:

• LEFT

left a narrative of Pedro de See also:

• CINTRA

Cintra's explorations in 1461 (or 1462) to Sierre Leone and beyond Cape Mesurado to El See also:

• MINA, FRANCISCO ESPOZ Y (1781-1836)

Mina and the See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

Gold See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

Coast; all these relations first appeared in the 1507 See also:

• VICENZA

Vicenza Collection of Voyages and Travels (the Paesi novamente retrovati et See also:

• HOVE

Hove mondo da Alberico Vesputio Florentine) ; they have frequently since been reprinted and translated (e.g .

Ital. See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text in 1508, 1512, 1519, 1521, 1550 (See also:

• RAMUSIO

Ramusio), &c.; See also:

• LAT

Lat. version, See also:

• ITINERARIUM (i.e. road-book, from Lat. iter, road)

Itinerarium Portugallensium, &c., 1508, 1532 (See also:

• GRYNAEUS (or. GRYNER), JOHANN JAKOB (1540-1617)
• GRYNAEUS, SIMON (1493-1541)

Grynaeus), &c.; Fr . Sensuyt le nouveau monde, &c., 1516, 1521; See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German, Newe unbekante Landte, &c .. 1508) . See also C . See also:

• SCHEFER, LEOPOLD (1784–1862)

Schefer, Relation See also:

• DES

des voyages .. de Ca' da Mosto (1895) : R . H . See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

Major, Henry the Navigator (1868),pp.246-287; C . R . Beazley, Henry the Navigator (1895), pp . 261-288; See also:

• YULE
• YULE, SIR HENRY (182o-1889)

Yule See also:

• OLDHAM
• OLDHAM, JOHN (1653–1683)
• OLDHAM, THOMAS (1816–1878)

Oldham, Discovery of the Cape Verde Islands (1892), esp. pp . 4-15 . It may be noted that See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

Antonio Uso di See also:

• MARE

Mare (Antoniotto Ususmaris), the Genoese, wrote his famous See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter of the 12th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1455 (purporting to See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record a See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting with the last surviving descendant of the Genoese-See also:

• INDIAN

Indian expedition of 1291, at or near the Gambia), after accompanying .

Cadamosto to West Africa; see Beazley, See also:

• DAWN (the 16th-century form of the earlier " Jawing " or " dawning," from an old verb " daw," O. Eng. dagian, to become day; cf. Dutch dagen, and Ger. tagen)

Dawn of See also:

• MODERN

Modern See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

Geography (1892), iii . 416-418 .