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Cam (about midsummer (?) 1482) to open up the African coast still further beyond the equator . The mouth of the Congo was now, discovered (perhaps in See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1482), and marked by a See also:

stone See also:

PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, Late Lat. pilare, from pila, column)

pillar (still existing, but only in fragments) erected on See also:

SHARK

Shark Point; the See also:

GREAT

great See also:

RIVER

river was also ascended for a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives . Cam then coasted down along the See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

ANGOLA

Angola (Portuguese West See also:

Africa), and erected a second pillar, probably marking the termination of this voyage, at Cape See also:

SANTA

Santa Maria (the See also:

MONTE

Monte See also:

NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

Negro of these first visitors) in 13° 26' S . He certainly returned to See also:

LISBON (Lisboa)

Lisbon by the beginning of See also:

APRIL

April 1484, when John II. ennobled him, made him a cavalleiro of his See also:

house-hold (he was already an escudeiro or See also:

ESQUIRE (0. Fr. escuyer, Mod. Fr. ecuyer, derived through the form escudier from Med. Lat. scutarius, " shield-bearer ")

esquire in the same), and granted him an See also:

ANNUITY (from Lat. annus, a year)

annuity and a coat of arms (8th and 14th of April 1484) . That Cam, on his second voyage of 148g-1486, was accompanied by See also:

Martin See also:

BEHAIM (or BE1?EM), MARTIN (1436?-1507)

Behaim (as alleged on the latter's See also:

NUREMBERG (Ger. Nurnberg)

Nuremberg globe of 1492) is very doubtful; but we know that the explorer revisited the Congo and erected two more pillars beyond the furthest of his previous voyage, the first at another " Monte Negro " in 15° 41' S., the second at Cape Cross in 21° 50', this last probably marking the end of his progress southward . According to one authority (a See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend on the 1489 See also:

map of'Henricus Martellus Germanus), Cam died off Cape Cross; but Joao de See also:

BARROS, JOAO DE (1496-1570)

Barros and others make him return to the Congo,and take thence a native See also:

ENVOY (Fr. envoye, " sent ")

envoy to Portugal . The four pillars set up by Cam on his two voyages have all been discovered in situ, and the See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions on two of them from Cape Santa Maria and Cape Cross, dated 1482 and 1485 respectively, are still to be read and have been printed; the Cape Cross padrao is now at See also:

KIEL

Kiel (replaced on the spot by a See also:

GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite facsimile); those from the Congo See also:

ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary and the more southerly Monte Negro are in the Museum of the Lisbon See also:

GEOGRAPHICAL

Geographical Society . See Barros, Decades da See also:

ASIA

Asia, See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

Decade i. bk. iii., esp. ch . 3; Ruy de See also:

PINA, RUY DE (1440-1521)

Pina, Chronica d' el Rei D . Joao II . ; See also:

Garcia de See also:

Resende, Chronica; Luciano Cordeiro, " Diogo Cao " in Boletim of the Lisbon Geog .

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