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See also: European known to sight and enter the See also: Congo, and to explore the West See also: African See also: coast between Cape St See also: Catherine (2° S.) and Cape See also: Cross (21° 50' S.) almost from the equator to Walfish See also: Bay
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When See also: King
See also: John II. of
See also: Portugal revived the See also: work of See also: Henry the Navigator, he sent out
See also: Cam (about midsummer (?) 1482) to open up the African coast still further beyond the equator
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The mouth of the Congo was now, discovered (perhaps in See also: August 1482), and marked by a See also: stone pillar (still existing, but only in fragments) erected on
See also: Shark Point; the See also: great See also: river was also ascended for a See also: short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives
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Cam then coasted down along the See also: present See also: Angola (Portuguese West See also: Africa), and erected a second pillar, probably marking the termination of this voyage, at Cape See also: Santa Maria (the See also: Monte See also: Negro of these first visitors) in 13° 26' S
.
He certainly returned to See also: Lisbon by the beginning of See also: April 1484, when John II. ennobled him, made him a cavalleiro of his See also: house-hold (he was already an escudeiro or esquire in the same), and granted him an See also: 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 Behaim (as alleged on the latter's
See also: 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
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According to one authority (a See also: legend on the 1489 map of'Henricus Martellus Germanus), Cam died off Cape Cross; but Joao de See also: Barros and others make him return to the Congo,and take thence a native See also: envoy to Portugal
.
The four pillars set up by Cam on his two voyages have all been discovered in situ, and the 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 (replaced on the spot by a granite facsimile); those from the Congo estuary and the more southerly Monte Negro are in the Museum of the Lisbon See also: Geographical Society
.
See Barros, Decades da See also: Asia, See also: Decade i. bk. iii., esp. ch
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3; Ruy de See also: Pina, Chronica d' el Rei D
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Joao II
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; Garcia de Resende, Chronica; Luciano Cordeiro, " Diogo Cao " in Boletim of the Lisbon Geog
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See also: Soc., 1892; E
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G
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Ravenstein, "Voyages of Diogo Cao," &c., in Geog
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Al. vol. xvi
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(1900); also Geog
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Jnl. xxxi
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(1908)
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