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Madeira, The discovery of this island attributed to an-Englishman, Ro- 
bert Macham ; it was revisited in 1419 by Juan Gonsalez, and Tristan 
Vaz, Portuguese. 
Canary Isles, discovered by some Genoese and Spanish seamen, having 
been known to the ancients. 
Guinea, the coast of, discovered by some seamen of Dieppe, about hie 
period. 
Porto Santo, discovered by Vaz and Zarco, Portuguese. 
Madeira, discovered by the same navigators. It was first called St. Law- 
rence, after the Saint’s day on which it was seen :—and subsequently Ma- 
deira, on account of its woods. 
Cape Bojador or Nun, doubled for the first time by the Portuguese. 
Cape Verd, discovered by Denis Fernandez, a Portuguese. 
Azores Islands, discovered by Gonzallo Vello, a Portuguese. 
Cape Verd Islands, discovered by Antonio de Noli, a Genoese in the ser- 
vice of Portugal. 
Island of St. Thomas, under the Equator, discovered. 
Congo, discovered by the Portuguese, under Diego Cam. 
Cape of Good Hope, discovered by Bartholomew Diaz. It was originally 
called ‘‘ The Cape of Tempests,” and was also named “ The Lion of 
the Sea,”’ and ‘ the Head of Africa.”’ The appellation was changed by 
John If. King of Portugal, who augured favourably of future discoveries 
from Diaz having reached the extremity of Africa. 
Lucayos (or Bahama) Islands. These were the first points of discovery 
by Columbus. San Salvador, one of these islands, was first seen by this 
great navigator, on the night of the 11th or 12th of October, in this year. 
Cuba, Island of discovered by Columbus in his first voy- 
Hispaniola, or St. Domingo, age. 
Jamaica 
. St. Christopher's discovered by Columbus in his second voyage. 
Dominica 
Cape of Good Hope, doubled by Vasco di Gama, and the passage to In- 
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dia discovered. 
Newfoundland, discovered by John Cabot, who first called it Prima Vista 
and Baccalaos. The title of Prima Vista still belongs to one of its capes, 
and an adjacent island is still called Baccalao. 
Continent of America, discovered by Columbus. 
Malabar, Coast of, discovered by Vasco di Gama. 
Mozambique, Island of, discovered by Vasco di Gama. 
America, Eastern Coasts of, discovered by Ojgde and Amerigo Vespucci. 
(It is contended by some that this preceded by a year the discovery of 
the American Continent by Columbus. ) 
Brazil, discovered 24th April by Alvarez de Cabral, a Portuguese, who 
was driven ou its coasts by atempest. He called it the Land of the Holy 
Cross.. It was subsequently called Brazil, on account of its red wood ; 
and was carefully explored by Amerigo Vespucci, from 1500 to 1504. 
Labrador and River St. Lawrence, discovered by Cortergal, who sailed 
from Lisbon on a voyage of discovery for the Portuguese. 
Gulf of Mexico. Some of the shores of this Gulf explored by Columbus 
on his last voyage. 
Si. Helena, the Island of, discovered by Jean de Nova, a Portuguese. 
Ceylon, discovered by the Portuguese. Ceylon was known to the Romans 
in the time of Claudius. 
§ Madagascar, Island of, discovered by Tristan da Cunha, and revisited by 
the Portuguese navigator Fernandez Pereira, in 1508. This island was 
first called St. Laurence, having been discovered on the day of that saint. 
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