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trying to round this very head-land, eleven 
years afterwards, in a fleet sailing under the 
command of Pedro Alyarez Cabral, he was 
drowned : and thus it became, as has been well 
said, "at once his trophy and his tomb." Shortly 
after these discoveries, the Portuguese Admiral, 
Joas d' Infante, Captain of the Santa Pantaleone, 
already mentioned, strongly urged his Govern- 
ment to establish a Colony at the great Pish 
Kiver, and he himself again doubled the Cape. 
Several attempts also were subsequently made, 
by Portuguese navigators, to colonize this coun- 
try; but all failed, owing, it is said, to the 
constant and harassing inroads of the natives. 
On the evening of the 11th of November, 
1497, the great expedition, commanded by the 
Conqueror Vasques de Gama, came in sight of 
the Cape of Good Hope; when, owing to con- 
trary winds, they stood out to sea, but turning 
again towards the shore at night. They thus 
tacked until the 20th, when they doubled the 
Cape, and found themselves at large in the 
Indian Ocean. He landed at a place called 
Angra del Bias, (possibly near the great Kei 
Eiver,) on the 24th, and here raised a pillar, 
with the King of Portugal's Arms upon it. 
This was immediately pulled down by the 
negroes, as they are styled; who, although 
they at first seemed friendly, finally meditated 
