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nately perfifting to difcover the coaft, he at laft came within 

 fight of the Cape, which he called the Cape ofTempefts, from 

 the rough treatment his veffel had met in her pafiage 

 round it. 



The great end was now obtained. Dias and his compa- 

 nions had really fuffered much, and, upon their return, 

 they did not fail to do ample juftice to their own bravery and 

 perfeverance ; in doing this, they had conjured up fo many 

 ftorms and dreadful fights, that, all the remainingJife of 

 king John, there was no more talk but of this Cape : Only 

 the king, to hinder a bad omen, inftead of the Cape of Tem- 

 pefts, ordered it to be called the Cape of Good Hope. 



Although the difcovery now was made, there were not 

 wanting a confiderable number of people of the greatefl 

 confequence who were for abandoning it altogether ; one 

 of their reafons was curious, and what, if their behaviour 

 afterwards had not been beyond all inflance heroic, would 

 have led us to imagine their fpirit of religion and conqueil 

 had both cooled fince the days of prince Henry. They were 

 afraid, left, after having discovered a pafiage to India, the de- 

 priving the Moorifh ftates of their revenues from the fpice- 

 trade, mould unite thefe powers to their deftruction. Now, 

 to deftroy their revenues effectually, and thereby ruin their 

 power, was the very motive which fet prince Henry upon 

 the difcovery, as worthy the Grand Matter of the Order of 

 Chrift ; an order founded in the blood of unbelievers, and 

 devoted particularly to the extirpation of the Mahometan 

 religion,. 



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