1500. JOHN AXD SEBASTIAN CABOTA. 37 



enrolled this deserving foreigner in the list of her 

 citizens. 



THE CORTEREALS. 1500. 



The Portugueze, not content with having dis- 

 covered a route to India by sailing round the tem- 

 pestuous extremity of Africa, soon after engaged in 

 an equally dangerous enterprize ; — that of finding 

 a route to India and the Spice islands, by sailing 

 westward round the northern extremity of 

 America. 



This bold undertaking was reserved for the 

 CoRTEREALs, the enlightened disciples of the 

 school of Sagres. The first navigator of the 

 name of Cortereal, who engaged in this enterprize, 

 was John Vaz Costa Cortereal, a gentleman of 

 the household of the Infanta Don Fernando — 

 Avho, accompanied by Alvaro Martens Hornen, 

 explored the northern seas, by order of King- 

 Alfonso the Fifth, and discovered the T'erra de 

 Baccalhaos (the land of cod fish) afterwards called 

 Newfoundland. 



This voyage is mentioned by Cordeiro,^ but he 

 does not state the exact date^ which however is 

 ascertained to have been in 1463 or 1464; for, on 

 their return from the discoverv of Newfoundland, 

 or Terra Nova, they touched at tlie island of 

 Terceira, the captaincy of which island having 



« Historia Insulana, Cordeiro, 1 vol. fol. 



D 3 



