Country.
But from that coast no other ship had arrived before my departure, which
was on the first of February 1463[12].
[1] For this exordium or introduction, we are indebted to the editor of
Astley's Collection of Voyages and Travels, said to have been a Mr
John Green. The infant Don Henry of Portugal died in 1463; so that
there must have been an interval of six or seven years between the
second voyage of Cada Mosto and this of Piedro de Cintra: Though de
Faria seems to put this voyage as having been executed before the
death of that excellent prince, yet Cada Mosto, who then actually
resided at Lagos, could not be mistaken is this important particular. -
Astl.
[2] In a note to the second voyage of Cada Mosto, it has been already
noticed that he seems to have given the name of Rio Grande to the
channel between the Bissagos islands, or shoals of the Rio Grande and
the Main. This river Besegue, may possibly be the strait or channel
which divides the island named particularly Bissagos, or more properly
Bissao, from that of Bassis or Bussi. Yet, this river Besegue may even
have been that now called Rio Grande, in which, about twenty-four
leagues above its mouth, there is an island called Bissaghe.
