Cape Verde

And they know that Barbados is densely forested, so they're thinking, you know, "There's gonna be lots of timber that we can use." Um, they expect that they'll be able to grow tropical crops.

Um, and significantly, even when they arrive in 1625, this small group already bring with them enslaved Africans, so captives that they've taken from a Spanish prize vessel, um, at the Cape, well off the Cape Verde Islands in the, um, Atlantic Ocean.

So slavery is, is kind of part of this, this colony from the very beginning.

And for the first sort of, um, 15 or 20 years, they're growing a selection of different kinds of tropical crops.

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on madeira vines from burgundy were planted and to this day form the chief industry of the island in fourteen thirty five cape bojador was passed and in fourteen forty one cape bronco discovered two years later cape verde was reached and passed by nuno tristau and for the first time there were signs that the african coast trended eastward By this time, Prince Henry's men had become familiar with the natives along the shore, and no less than 1,000 of them had been brought back and distributed amongst the Portuguese nobles as pages and attendants.

In 1455, a Venetian named Alves Caramosto undertook a voyage still farther south for purposes of trade, the prince supplying the capital and covenanting for half profits on results.

They reached the mouth of the Gambia, but found the natives hostile.

Here, for the first time, European navigators lost sight of the pole star and saw the brilliant constellation of the Southern Cross.

The last discovery made during Prince Henry's life was that of the Cape Verde Islands by one of his captains, Diogo Gómez, in 1460, the very year of his death.

as the successive discoveries were made they were jotted down by the prince's cartographers on portolanos and just before his death the king of portugal sent to a venetian monk fra maro details of all discoveries up to that time to be recorded on a mapamundi a copy of which still exists the impulse thus given by prince henry's patient investigation of the african coast continued long after his death in fourteen seventy one fernand de pou discovered the island which now bears his name while in the same year pedro de escobar crossed the equator wherever the portuguese investigators landed they left marks of their presence at first by erecting crosses then by carving on trees prince henry's motto talent de bien faire and finally they adopted the method of erecting stone pillars surmounted by a cross and inscribed with the king's arms and names these pillars were called In 1484, Diego Cam, a knight of the king's household, set up one of these pillars at the mouth of a large river, which he therefore called the Rio de Pedral.

It was called by the natives the Zaire, and is now known as the River Congo.

A cruise ship at the center of an outbreak of hantavirus has been told it can dock now in the Canary Islands.

It's currently stuck off the coast of Cape Verde.

Three people have died, several others have fallen ill.

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The other event was the signature, May 12th, 1894, of an agreement between England and King Leopold of Belgium, by which the latter, as sovereign of the Congo Free State, received a lease of the Bar-el-Ghazal district in the southeastern part of the Egyptian Sudan in return for a perpetual lease of a corridor of territory 25 kilometres wide running from Lake Albert Edward to Lake Tanganyika.

To grasp the significance of these arrangements the reader should study the accompanying map, bearing in mind the British Cape to Cairo project and the French Cape Verde to Somaliland project.

Map is on page 140.

The British by this time had pushed their frontiers north from Cape Colony to Lake Tanganyika.