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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
name of Eio d' Infante, from Joas Infante, Cap- 
tain of the Santa Pantaleone, who was the first- 
European who landed there. The Portuguese 
entered this river with their ships, and remain- 
ed at anchor for three days. Failing, how- 
ever, to obtain any information respecting India 
from the natives, whom they describe as * ^ a sa- 
vage sort of people," they finally weighed an- 
chor, and returned to the little island to which 
they had given the name which it still retains, 
Santa Cruz, and on which are yet to be seen 
the remnants of their rude cross. Diaz (says the 
chronicler of this voyage) on leaving this scene 
of his labours was moved to tears, and parted 
with the cross that he had set up on this bar- 
ren rock, " as if he had been leaving a son in 
perpetual banishment." On his voyage back 
he came in sight of the long sought promontory, 
which we now call " The Cape" or the Head 
of Africa ; but which he named Cabo Tormen- 
toso, or Cabo do los Tormentos, (Cape of Storms.) 
This appellation was, however, changed by his 
master, King John II., to Cabo de Buena Es- 
peranza, (The Cape of Good Hope ; J on account 
of the hopes he entertained, and which were 
shortly realised, of discovering a passage round 
it by sea to the East Indies. 
This scene of tender emotions to Bartholomew 
Diaz, he was never destined to see again. While 
