TENERIFFE. 



TROM THE APPLICATION OF THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE TO EURO- 

 PEAN NAVIGATION TO THE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD 

 UNDER MAGELLAN — 1300 — 1519. 



CHAPTER XII. 



7 HE PORTUGUESE ON THE COAST OF AFRICA— THE SPANIARDS ANT) THE CANARY 



JSLES DON HENRY OF PORTUGAL— THE TERRIBLE CAPE, NOW CAPE BOJADOR 



THE SACRED PROMONTORY— DISCOVERY OF THE MADEIRAS— A DREADFUL 



PHENOMENON A PROLIFIC RABBIT AND A WONDERFUL CONFLAGRATION HOS- 

 TILITY OF THE PORTUGUESE TO FURTHER MARITIME ADVENTURE THE BAY 



OF HORSES THE FIRST GOLD DUST SEEN IN EUROPE DISCOVERY OF CAPE 



VERD AND THE AZORES THE EUROPEANS APPROACH THE EQUATOR JOURNEY 



OF CADA-MOSTO— DEATH OF DON HENRY— PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION UNDER 

 THE AUSPICES OF THIS PRINCE. 



We are now to consider at some length a series of voyages, 

 tedious and fruitless at first, successful in the end, undertaken 

 by the Portuguese, in their age of maritime heroism, to discover 

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