1898.] Erected by Bartholomew Diaz near Angra Pequena. 299 



Conceicao Angra Pequena, and Angras Juntas. It was certainly 

 along this coast that Bartholomew Diaz commenced his explorations, 

 those of Diogo Cao having finished at Cabo da Serra, Cabo da Cruz 

 or Cross Point, where he placed his fourth and last pillar, recently 

 removed by the Germans, as shown in the previously quoted Memoir 

 of Lucian Cordeiro, and in another entitled ' O ultimo padrao de 

 Diogo Cao,' published in the Bulletin of the Geographical Society of 

 Lisbon. 



The last pillar of Diogo Cao has been in some way confused with 

 the first one of Bartholomew Diaz. This latter was acquired in 

 several pieces by the English from Pedestal Point near Angra 

 Pequena. 



According to Owen this pillar was destroyed at the commencement 

 of the present century. Owen endeavoured to replace the pillar, but 

 on account of the many pieces into which it had been broken this 

 was found to be impossible. On two of the fragments, however, 

 traces of an inscription were found, which were considered to be 

 illegible. 



The question is, Were these particular portions obtained when the 

 fragments of the pillar were brought to the Cape, and are they still 

 there ? A portion, or rather two portions, which seem to have been 

 continuous and which evidently form part of the column, are now 

 in our Museum, having reached us from the Naval School in 1892, 

 accompanied solely by the tradition that they formed part of the 

 Pillar of Bartholomew Diaz, which the Portuguese Consul at the 

 Cape, Senhor du Prat, had succeeded in obtaining there, and had 

 sent to the Portuguese Government or to the King of Portugal, 

 and which had then been deposited at the Museum of the Naval 

 School. They are still in the same wooden box in which they were 

 preserved in the Naval School, and are certainly the relics of which 

 the British Minister has asked for a reproduction. 



As has been said already, it seems to have formed part of the 

 capital of the column, which could not have been very large and 

 which seems to have been of the same design as those of Diogo Cao. 



There is no cross or portion of a cross, and in the two best pre- 

 served pillars, those of Cape St. Augustine and of Cape Negro, one 

 can only just make out the spot for the placing of the cross which 

 formed the summit of the pillar and was probably made of iron, both 

 in these (i.e., Diogo Cao's) as well as in the others erected later. 



It may be further worth while mentioning that the Portuguese 

 sculptor, Victor Bastos, recently deceased, had made a sketch of 

 considerable proportions, for a picture never completed, of the erection 



