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In The Year 1490, The King Sent Gonzalo De Sosa To Congo With Three Ships, Carrying Back With Him The Ambassador Of The King Of Congo, Who Had Been Brought Over To Portugal In 1484, By Diego Caon.

During his residence in Portugal, this ambassador and others of his company had been instructed in the Christian religion, and baptized.

Gonzalo de Sosa died during the outward-bound voyage; and Ruy de Sosa, his nephew, was chosen to the command of the expedition in his stead. Arriving in Congo, the king of that country received them with much joy, and soon yielded himself and the greater part of his subjects to be baptized; to the infinite satisfaction of the Portuguese, who by these means converted so many infidels from paganism to Christianity.

[1] The only quotations used in this Section in the original translation by Hakluyt, are from the Asia of John de Barros, Decade 1. which it has not been deemed necessary to refer to here more particularly. - E.

[2] It is singular that a Portuguese should not be more correct. Henry was the _fifth_ son. - Clarke.

[3] More accurately 28 deg. 40'. - E.

[4] Opportunities will occur hereafter, in particular voyages, to discuss the circumstances of this wonderful tree.

[5] Galvano is again mistaken. Edward or Duarte was the _eldest_ son; Pedro the _third_. - Clarke.

[6] Dr Vincent, in his Periplus, considers this as a copy of the map of Marco Polo, which was exhibited in the church of St Michael de Murano, at Venice. - Clarke.

[7] Even if this were fact, it proves nothing, as the Cape of Good Hope must have been inserted merely by the fancy of the draughtsman. - Clarke. - It may be added, that in 1528, it was no difficult matter to wrong date a forged map, on purpose to detract from the merit of the actual discoverers. - E.

[8] More correctly in lat. 20 deg. 54' N. There is another Cape Blanco in Morocco in lat. 33 deg. 10' N. and this more southerly cape on the great desert is named Branca in our best charts. - E.

[9] The mouth of the Senegal is in lat. 15 deg. 45' N. - E.

[10] More correctly, 14 deg. 45' N. - E.

[11] It is difficult to ascertain these two rivers: The Rio Grande here meant is properly named Gambia. The river in 12 deg. N. may be the Casamansa, the Santa Anna, or the St Dominico: which last is exactly in 12 deg. N. the two others a little farther north, and nearer the Gambia. - E.

[12] This is one of the many palpable and clumsy fables which were advanced to defraud Columbus of the honour of having discovered the new world, and is even more ridiculous, if possible, than the voyages of Zeno, adverted to in our _First_ Part. - E.

[13] Equal to L.138: 17: 9-1/4 d. English money. - Halk.

[14] Only 6 deg. 45' S. - E.

[15] Mr Clarke explains this as _long pepper_; but besides that this by no means answers the descriptive name in the text, long pepper certainly is the production of the East Indies.

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