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yond it. Whether the fiery oceans might not have prefented 

 themfelves to thele gentlemen, I know not ; but a violent 

 llorm forced them to fea. After being tolTed about in perpe- 

 tual fear of fhipwreck for feveral days, they at laft landed on. 

 a fmall ifland, which they called Port Santo.. Thefe two navi- 

 gators pofTclTed the true fpirit of difcovcry. Far from giving 

 uhemfelves up for lolt in a new world, or content with what 

 they had already done, they fet about making the molt di- 

 ligent obfervation of every thing remarkable in this fmall 

 fpot. The ifland itfelf was barren ; bnt, examining the ho- 

 rizon all around, they obferved a black fixed fpot there, 

 which never either changed its place or dimenfions. Satif- 

 fied, therefore, that this was land, they returned to the In- 

 fant with the news of this double difcovery. 



Three velTels were fpeedily equipped by the prince; two 

 of them given to Vaz and Arco, and the third to Bartholo- 

 mew Pereftrello, gentleman of the bed-chamber to Don John 

 his brother. Thefe adventurers were far from difappoint- 

 ing his expecflations ; they arrived at Port Santo, and pro- 

 ceeded to the fixed fpot, which they found to be the iiland 

 of Madeira, wholly covered with wood; an ifland that has 

 ever fince been of the greateft ufe to the trade of both In- 

 dies, and which has remained to the crown of Portugal, 

 after the greateft part of their other conquefts in the eaft 

 are loft. John I. was now dead, and Edward had fucceeded 

 him. The infant Henry, however, ftill continued the pur- 

 fuit of his difcoveries with the greateft ardour. 



Giles D'Anez, ftimulated by the fuccefs of the laft ad- 

 veiuures, put to fea with a refolution to double Cape Boja- 

 dor clofc in fliore, fo as to make his voyage a foundation 



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