A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
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A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
Africa -- Description and travel; Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524; India -- Description and travel; Voyages and travels
+K.+ Aqui naca a canella e muitos sortes de espeçiaria, ed aqui
pescam as perlas ed aljofar, sam as gentes de esta ylha idolatres e
tratam muito cravo com Caliqut.
(Here grows cinnamon and many kinds of spices, and there they fish
pearls and seed-pearls. The people of the island are idolators, and
take many cloves to Caliqut.)
+L.+ Em esta ylha ha gente do que comase huum as outras. (Cantino
Chart.)
(In this island there are people who eat one another.)
+M.+ Em estas tres ylhas nam ai nada sinam gente nuito pobre a nua
(Cantino Chart.)
(In these three islands the people are very poor and naked.)
The following list of place-names includes all names found upon the
maps referred to from the Cape of Good Hope to Malindi. Beyond that
place the principal names only are given.
In addition to the names to be found on the maps, we have introduced
those given in Duarte Pacheco Pereira’s _Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis_,
written in 1505.
LIST OF PLACE-NAMES.
The authorities are referred to by Arabic numerals thus:—
1. Henricus Martellus Germanus. 2. Juan de la Cosa. 3. Dr. Hamy’s
Chart. 4. Cantino Chart. 5. Canerio. 6. Strassburg Ptolemy. 7. Duarte
Pacheco.
Place-names having an asterisk prefixed to them are mentioned in the
_Roteiro_. The small letters in _Italics_ refer to the Notes.
The Dates, in the first column, are those of the Saints after whom
localities have been named.
------------------------+--------------------------------+---------------
+In Portuguese.+ | +Names on the Maps.+ |+Modern Names.+
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*+Cabo da boa Esperança+|1, Cavo desperanza; 2, C. de boa|+Cape of Good
| esperança; 3, Cabo di bona | Hope+
| speranza; 4, Cabo de boa |
| esperança; 5 and 6, Cabo di |
| bona speranza |
| |
G. dentro das serras |1, Golfo dntº delle serre; 3, |False Bay
(gulf within the | Praia sabio (pablo?) _[a]_; |
mountain ranges) | 4, abaia |
| |
Ponta espinhosa _[b]_ |2, Punta espinosa (chrinosa ?) |Cape Hangklip
(thorny point) | |
| |
As serras |4, As seia (a serra ?) |
| |
Ponta de S. Brandãāo, |2, Mastradios (nutrador ?); 4, |Quoin Point
May 16 | S. biado; 7, Ponta de |
| S. Brandam |
| |
+Cabo das Agulhas+ |2, Punta de gra?; 7, Cabo dos |+Cape Agulhas+
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