Pedraluarez Cabral (Pedro Alluarez de Gouvea): His Progenitors, His Life and His Voyage to America and India

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B. Quaritch, 1914 - 72 páginas
 

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Página 39 - First, by the grace of God, King of Portugal and of the Algarves, after having acceded thereto, determined to compleat, without delay, this great and important work.
Página 26 - Castella, salvo che è piú a levante, la quale per altra mia vi scrissi, dove dicono che pigliorono ogni rinfrescamento, e di quivi partirono, e presono loro navigazione verso levante, e navigorono pel vento dello scilocco, pigliando la quarta di levante. E quando furono larghi dalla detta terra, ebbono tanto tormento di mare col vento a libeccio, e tanto fortunoso, che mandó sotto sopra cinque delle loro navi, e le somerse nel mare con. tutta la gente. Iddio abbia auto misericordia dell
Página 26 - E dipoi d" aver navigato venti giornate, circa a settecento leghe (che ogni lega è quattro miglia e mezzo) posono in una terra, dove trovorono gente bianca e ignuda della medesima terra, che io discopersi per Re di Castella, salvo che è...
Página 55 - ... and if on the voyage you encounter any ships of Mecca and it appears to you that you are able to capture them, you are to try to take them, but you are not to come to close quarters with them if you can avoid it, but only with your artillery are you to compel them to strike sail and to launch their boats...
Página 41 - ... our wish, 20,000 reis each year, wherefore we order the Comptrollers of our Exchequer that they shall record it in our books and give concerning it each year a letter to a place where there may be good payment, and for his protection and our remembrance, we order this our letter given by us signed and sealed with our pendant seal. Given in our city of Evora on the 5th day of the month of November. Jorge Fr2 did it. The year of 1520.
Página 52 - ... please us if he could exclude these Moors from his land and from trading in it, since, please God, he will receive from us and ours all the profit which until now he has had from them, and much more, and that it would be well and for God's service, because in this he would comply with his duty as a Christian king, if he would expel them from his country and not allow them to come there nor to trade in it...
Página 25 - VESPUCCI dall' Isola del capo Verde, e nel mare Oceano, a Lorenzo di Piero Francesco de Medici sotto di 4 di giugno 15o1, relativa a queste prime scoperte orientali.
Página 34 - Cabral e dona Isabel de Castro sua molher, cuja he esta capella he de todos seus erdeyros aquall depois da morte de seu marydo...
Página 51 - ... between us and him, you shall make known to him that if you encounter ships belonging to the aforesaid Moors of Mecca at sea, you must endeavour as much as you can to take possession of them, and of their merchandise and property and also of the Moors who are in the ships, to your profit as best you can, and to make war upon them and do them as much damage as possible as a people with whom we have so great and so ancient an enmity, and also because we comply with our obligations to God our Lord,...
Página 13 - ... Pedro Alvarez was born of Fernao Cabral and Izabel de Gouvea. He was a second son. Save of his trip to India, very little is known of his life. "There is perhaps no distinguished discoverer regarding whose life, apart from his discoveries, we know so little as we do regarding the life of Pedralvarez Cabral. We know only that he was the son of an important judicial functionary, that he was one of a somewhat large family — there were four sons besides Pedralvarez, and two daughters — that his...

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