WORKS ISSUED BY
The Hakluyt Society.
THE CHRONICLE
OF
THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST
OF GUINEA.
VOL. II.
first series. no.c-mdcccxcix
STATUE OF PRINCE HENRY IN ARMOUR AT BELEM.
THE CHRONICLE
OF THE
DISCOVERY
AND
CONQUEST OF GUINEA.
WRITTEN BY
GOMES EANNES DE AZURARA;
NOW FIRST DONE INTO ENGLISH
BY
CHARLES RAYMOND BEAZLEY, M.A., F.R.G.S.,
fellow of merton college, oxford;corresponding member
of the lisbon geographicalsociety;
and
EDGAR PRESTAGE, B.A.Oxon.,
knight of the most nobleportuguese order of s. thiago; corresponding
member of the lisbonroyal academy of sciences,
the lisbon geographical society,etc.
VOL. II.
(CHAPTERS XLI-XCVII).
With an Introduction on the
Early History ofAfrican Exploration, Cartography, etc.
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The Right Hon. The Lord Stanley of Alderley,Vice-President.
Rear-Admiral SirWilliam Wharton, K.C.B., Vice-President.
C. Raymond Beazley, Esq., M.A.
Colonel G. Earl Church.
Sir Martin Conway.
AlbertGray, Esq.
F. H. H. Guillemard, Esq.,M.A., M.D.
The Right Hon. LordHawkesbury.
Edward Heawood, Esq.,M.A.
Dudley F. A. Hervey, Esq.,C.M.G.
Admiral Sir Anthony H. Hoskins,G.C.B.
J. Scott Keltie, Esq.,LL.D.
F. W. Lucas, Esq.
Vice-Admiral Albert H. Markham.
E. J. Payne, Esq.
SirCuthbert E. Peek, Bart.
E. G.Ravenstein, Esq.
Howard Saunders,Esq.
Charles Welch, Esq.,F.S.A.
William Foster, Esq., B.A., HonorarySecretary.
PREFATORY NOTE.
This Volume continues and ends the present Edition of theChronicle of Guinea, the first part of which was published in1896 (vol. xcv of the Hakluyt Society'spublications). Here we have again to acknowledge the kind advice andhelp of various friends, particularly of Senhor Batalhaȧ Reis and Mr.William Foster. As to the Maps which accompany this volume: the sectionsof Andrea Bianco, 1448, and of Fra Mauro, 1457-9, h