de Castanheda, Fernão Lopes: Descobrimento e Conquista da India pelos Portuguezes, reference to, [17]
Celts: occupation of the Iberian peninsula by, [5]
Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar: in 1415 is taken by the Portuguese from the Moors, [9]
de Cinta, Pedro: in 1461 reaches Cape Palmas, [16]
Synoptical Index.
Commerce between Europe and India before A.D. 1500: mode of conducting, [3]
Compass, the: use of in Western Europe in the early years of the fifteenth century, [12]
Convicts: use made of by the Portuguese, [18]
Cross set up by Bartholomeu Dias at Angra Pequena: destruction of, [20]
Dias, Bartholomeu: in August 1486 sails from the Tagus, [17]; near the equator leaves his storeship behind, [19]; reaches Angra dos Ilheos, now called Angra Pequena, where he sets up a marble pillar, ib.; touches next at Angra das Voltas, [20]; passes the Cape of Good Hope without knowing it, [21]; and reaches Angra dos Vaqueiros, probably the present Mossel Bay, ib.; where he sees Hottentots with cattle, but cannot communicate with them, as they flee inland in fear, ib.; sails eastward and reaches an island in the bay now called Algoa, on which he erects a cross, [22]; visits the mainland and examines it eastward to a prominent rock, which receives the name Penedo das Fontes on account of two springs of water found there, ib.; here the seamen protest against going farther, but he induces them to persevere a little longer, [23]; reaches the mouth of a river which he names the Infante, ib.; there the expedition turns back, [24]; when returning he discovers the Cape of Good Hope, and erects a cross somewhere on the Cape peninsula, ib.; rejoins his storeship, which he burns, ib.; touches next at Prince’s Island in the bight of Biafra, [25]; where he finds some Portuguese in distress, and takes them on board his ship, ib.; visits São Jorge da Mina, where he takes some gold on board, ib.; and in December 1487 reaches Lisbon again, ib.