[31] W.H. Lecky, Rationalism.
[32] See Note 2, page 137.
[33] Except the draughtsmen of the Portolani.
[34] City of "Seven" Hills, as some have derived it.
[35] The attempts of Henry and his family to conquer a land-empire in northern Africa are not to be separated from the maritime and coasting explorations. They were two aspects of one idea, two faces of the same enterprise.
In the same way the new bishopric of Ceuta, now founded, was a first step towards the organised conversion of the Heathen of the South. The Franciscans had founded the See of Fez and Morocco in 1233, but it had not till now been followed up.
[36] In 1418 and 1424-5 Henry purchased and tried to secure certain rights of possession in the Canaries, conceded by De Béthencourt; and these attempts were repeated in 1445 and 1446.
[37] Camoëns' Lusiads, iv., 52.
[38] The date of this voyage is brought down as late as 1447 by Santarem Oliveiro Martins.