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discovery of the island entirely to Goncalves Zarco and 

 Tristram Vaz ; nor will it, I fear, go far to authenticate it, 

 that a hit of the cedar cross is still shown in the chapel at 

 Machico, which is said to have been built over the grave of 

 the lovers, or that there was a Padre, till lately living at 

 Canical, who said he remembered under the altar the roots of 

 an old tree, the same, it is presumed, beneath which they died. 

 Yet that some such story had reached the ears of Zarco is 

 accredited by the fact, if it be one, that he * named the place. 

 of his first anchorage " Porto dos Inglezes" and on his second 

 voyage changed it to that of " Porto de Machico." Antonio 

 Galuano, in his chronicles of Portuguese discoveries up to 

 1550, gives a different version of this same story ; he relates 

 that Machim escaped after the death of Anna, in a boat 

 which was picked up on the coast of Africa by the Moors, and 

 was sent as a curiosity to Henry III., King of Castile. 



GOVERNORS APPOINTED. 



As soon as its discoverers had sobered down sufficiently 

 from the first burst of joy, with which the announcement of 

 her new acquisition was hailed in Portugal, to turn their 

 minds to colonization and government, Joao Goncalves Zarco 

 and Tristao Vaz Teixeira were dispatched to Madeira, with a 

 few nobles who volunteered to accompany them. 



ALLOTMENT OF LAND. 



To Zarco were committed the western and southern por- 

 tions of the island, with Funchal for a capital; and to Vaz 

 the eastern and northern half, where he established himself 

 at Machico. The lands in the two captaincies were divided 

 by option amongst the nobles and gentlemen who accompa- 



* Encycl. Metrop., vol. viii. p. 643. 



