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... Mosto's visit in 1454, being between seven and eight hundred. The narrative of the Portuguese voyages along the African coast is, for the most part, rather uninviting. It abounds with names, and dates, and facts; but the names are often ...
... Mosto's visit in 1454, being between seven and eight hundred. The narrative of the Portuguese voyages along the African coast is, for the most part, rather uninviting. It abounds with names, and dates, and facts; but the names are often ...
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... MOSTO. This transaction, teeming, as it did, with anxious life, makes but a poor show in some chronicle;--they sailed, and did something, or failed in doing, and then came back, and this was in such a year:-- brief records, like the ...
... MOSTO. This transaction, teeming, as it did, with anxious life, makes but a poor show in some chronicle;--they sailed, and did something, or failed in doing, and then came back, and this was in such a year:-- brief records, like the ...
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... Mosto, a young Venetian, who had already gained some experience in voyaging, happened to be on board a Venetian galley that was detained by contrary winds at Cape St. Vincent. Prince Henry was then living close to the Cape. He sent his ...
... Mosto, a young Venetian, who had already gained some experience in voyaging, happened to be on board a Venetian galley that was detained by contrary winds at Cape St. Vincent. Prince Henry was then living close to the Cape. He sent his ...
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... Mosto the reader at once learns the state of things with regard to the slave-trade. The Portuguese factory at Argnim was the headquarters of the trade. Thither came all kinds of merchandise; and gold and slaves were taken back in return ...
... Mosto the reader at once learns the state of things with regard to the slave-trade. The Portuguese factory at Argnim was the headquarters of the trade. Thither came all kinds of merchandise; and gold and slaves were taken back in return ...
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... Mosto being, as was said before, the first modern European visiting Africa who himself gives an account of it, and being, moreover, an honest and intelligent man, possessing the rare combination of keen observation and clear narrative ...
... Mosto being, as was said before, the first modern European visiting Africa who himself gives an account of it, and being, moreover, an honest and intelligent man, possessing the rare combination of keen observation and clear narrative ...
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Adelantado admiral admiral's Africa afterwards amongst Anacaona arrived Bartholomew Columbus Bemoin Bobadilla Bohechio brother brought cacique called Canary Islands cannibals canoes Caonabo Cape Cape Bojador capture caravel Casas Castile Catholic sovereigns Christians Christopher Columbus colonists colony Columbus's command continent cosmographers court crew despatch discovered discovery Domingo Don Bartholomew enterprise expedition faith favour Ferdinand and Isabella Fonseca Footnote Gil Eannes gold governor Granada Guacanagari Guarionex Gulf of Paria Henry of Portugal highnesses Hispaniola honour Indians Indies island Juan king labour land leagues look Maiobanex Margarite mariners Mendez mind monarchs Mosto mutineers natives occasion Ojeda Ovando Palos Perez persons Pinzon Porras Portugal Portuguese Prester John Prince Henry probably proceeded provisions Queen received repartimientos return to Spain river Roldan royal sail sailors says seen sent ships shore slavery slaves Spain Spaniards Spanish taken things thought took tribute vessels voyage Xaragua