The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 6
EDITORS\' PREFACE......Page 12
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF AZURARA......Page 16
CHAPTER I - Which is the Prologue, wherein the Author sheweth what will be his purpose in this Work......Page 84
CHAPTER II - The Author\'s invocation......Page 89
CHAPTER III - In which we recount the descent of the Infant Don Henry......Page 93
CHAPTER IV - Which speaketh of the habits of the Infant Don Henry......Page 95
CHAPTER V - In which the Chronicler speaketh briefly of the notable matters which the Infant performed for the service of God and the honour of the Kingdom......Page 98
CHAPTER VI - In which the Author, who setteth in order this history, saith something of what he purposeth concerning the virtues of the Infant Don Henry......Page 105
CHAPTER VII - In which five reasons appear why the Lord Infant was moved to command the search for the lands of Guinea......Page 110
CHAPTER VIII - Why ships had not hitherto dared to pass beyond Cape Bojador......Page 113
CHAPTER IX - How Gil Eannes, a native of Lagos, was the first who passed the Cape of Bojador, and how he returned thither again, and with him Affonso Gonçalvez Baldaya......Page 115
CHAPTER X - How Affonso Gonçalvez Baldaya reached the Rio d\'Ouro......Page 118
CHAPTER XI - Of the things that were achieved in the years following......Page 121
CHAPTER XII - How Antam Gonçalvez brought back the first Captives......Page 122
CHAPTER XIII - How Nuno Tristam reached the spot where Antam Gonçalvez was, and how he dubbed him knight......Page 127
CHAPTER XIV - How Antam Gonçalvez, and afterwards Nuno Tristam, came before the Infant with their booty......Page 133
CHAPTER XV - How the Infant Don Henry sent his embassy to the Holy Father, and of the answer that he had......Page 135
CHAPTER XVI - How Antam Gonçalvez went to make the first ransom......Page 137
CHAPTER XVII - How Nuno Tristam went to the island of Gete, and of the Moors that he took......Page 141
CHAPTER XVIII - How Lançarote required license from the Infant to go with his ships to Guinea......Page 143
CHAPTER XIX - Who were the Captains of the other Caravels, and of the first booty that they made......Page 146
CHAPTER XX - How they went to the island of Tiger, and of the Moors that they took......Page 151
CHAPTER XXI - How they, Lançarote and the others, returned in their boats to Tiger, and of the Moors that they took......Page 155
CHAPTER XXII - Of the reasons that Gil Eannes gave, and how they went to Tiger, and of the Moors that they took......Page 157
CHAPTER XXIII - How they went to Cape Branco, and of what they did there......Page 160
CHAPTER XXIV - How the caravels arrived at Lagos, and of the account that Lancarote gave to the Infant......Page 162
CHAPTER XXV - Wherein the Author reasoneth somewhat concerning the pity inspired by the captives, and of how the division was made......Page 163
CHAPTER XXVI - How the Infant Don Henry made Lancarote a Knight......Page 166
CHAPTER XXVII - How the Infant ordered Gonçallo de Sintra to go to Guinea, and how he was killed......Page 170
CHAPTER XXVIII - Of the reasons that the Author giveth for a warning as to the death of Gonçallo de Sintra......Page 175
CHAPTER XXIX - How Antam Gonçalvez and Gomez Pirez and Diego Affonso went to the Rio d\'Ouro......Page 178
CHAPTER XXX - How Nuno Tristam went to Tira, and of the Moors that he took captive there......Page 179
CHAPTER XXXI - How Dinis Diaz went to the land of the Negroes, and of the Captives that he took......Page 181
CHAPTER XXXII - How Antam Gonçalvez, Garcia Homem, and Diego Affonso, set out for Cape Branco......Page 184
CHAPTER XXXIII - How they went to Ergim Island, and of the Moors they took there......Page 187
CHAPTER XXXIV - How John Fernandez came to the caravels......Page 190
CHAPTER XXXV - How Antam Gonçalvez went to make the ransom......Page 192
CHAPTER XXXVI - How they took the Moors at Cape Branco......Page 196
CHAPTER XXXVII - How the caravel of Gonçalo Pacheco and two other ships went to the isle of Ergim......Page 199
CHAPTER XXXVIII - How Mafaldo took forty-six Moors......Page 204
CHAPTER XXXIX - How they landed another time, and of the things that they did......Page 205
CHAPTER XL - How Alvaro Vasquez took the seven Moors......Page 207