The History of South America Containing the Discoveries of Columbus the Conqu
The History of South America Containing the Discoveries of Columbus the Conqu
R Richard Johnson
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The fquadron/ like all thofe fitted out for difcovery in the infancy of navigation, was extremely feeble, con- iifting only of three veffels, of neither burthen nor force adequate to the f^rvice. He fet fail from Lifbon on the' Qth of July, 1497, and Handing towards t':e South, had to ftruggls for four months with contrary wind;, before ha could reach the Cape of Good Hope : Kerc their violence began to abate, and during an interval of calm weather, in the latter end of Novemb r, Gama doubled t...hat formidable promontory, which had fo long been the boundary of navigation, and di- rcdled his courfe towards the north-eaft, aloni' 44 THE HISTORY CF al^ng the African cc?ft He touched at ievcral ports, anc! after v:-ric us adventures, he came to a. I anchor before the city of M-leida. Gama now purfue i his voyage with a^rnoft abfolute certainty of fuccels, and, uiiJcr the conduct of a Mahometan pilot, he arrived at Calecut, upon the coaft of Malabar, on the 22d of May, 1 4-, 3. Wlr-it h" eheld of the wealth, the po- puloufnefs, the cultivation, the induftry, and arts of this highly civilized country, far exceeded any idea that he had formed, from the impeifi-ft accounts, which the Europeans had hitherto received of it.
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