[947] There is a dubious-looking record that at this time a systematic attempt was made to Christianise the natives instead of enslaving them. See it in Dunham, History of Spain and Portugal, iii, 288-91.
[948] Thus the second great expansion of geographical knowledge, like the first, went to the credit of Spain through Portuguese mismanagement, Magellan being alienated by King Miguel's impolicy.
[949] I follow the dates fixed by Mr. Stephens, p. 175.
[950] See Dunham, iii, 286, as to the anger of John II at a pilot's remark that the voyage to Guinea was easily made. An attempted disclosure of the fact to Spain was ferociously punished.
[951] Cp. Stephens, pp. 181, 218.
[952] Id. p. 228.
[953] Stephens, pp. 177, 181, 192.
[954] Id. pp. 171-73.
[955] Conde da Carnota, The Marquis of Pombal, 2nd. ed. 1871, pp. 72-77.
[956] Stephens, p. 182.