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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
His grand-nephew, John II., had imbibed 
the passion for discovery, and his Portuguese 
subjects eagerly carried out his most impatient 
wishes, under Diego Cam. 
At length the enterprising mariner, Bartho- 
lomew Diaz, put to sea with three ships. He 
passed Cape Cross or De Padrono, (in 22° South 
latitude) the furthest point to which Diego 
Cam had reached, and proceeded until he arrived 
at Sierra Parda, (in 24° South latitude.) Here 
he raised his first cross, calling it Padrao de 
Santiago. He then passed on as far as Cape 
das Voltas, (about 29° South latitude) where he 
was detained for five days. Upon leaving this 
point, he fell in with foul weather and was 
driven out to sea ; and upon his next nearing 
the land, he made the Western point of Mossel 
Bay, which he named the Angra dos Vagneiros 
(Cape Vaches Vaccas, or Bay of Herdsmen.) 
He here found that the land stretched to the 
ISTorth. — Without knowing it, he had in reality, 
doubled the Cape. 
Still continuing his voyage from this, he 
came to the small island in Algoa Bay; where, 
anchoring and landing on Thursday, the 14th 
of September, 1486, (being the Festival of Holy 
Cross,) he raised his second cross. And here, 
amid the roaring foam of the untamed flood ; 
here on a rude islet in a remote and tempestuous 
