...avail the Italian republics, who were unable to reach its southern shores by sea, while the lend mate was too arduous and perilous to be much frequented....enterprise and adventure. In 1497, Vasco de Gama doubled th« Cape of Good Hope, and reached the shores of India at Calicut. In the tehort space of twenty years...

...excellent state, and greatly extended his possessions in Africa, as well as making further discoveries. In 1497, Vasco de Gama doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and found his way to Goa, in the East Indies, where his treaties with the inhabitants were the foundation...

...sailed, in this century, along the western coast, going each voyage farther and farther south, till in 1497, Vasco De Gama doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and sailed up on the eastern side. Then the shape and outline of this great continent was known, but no...

...Azores ; then gradually explored the western coast of Africa by Cape Bojador and Cape Verd, until, in 1497, Vasco de Gama doubled the Cape of Good Hope and made his way to India. The discovery of the New World by Columbus in 1492 was unquestionably stimulated...

...Ferdinand lent a willing ear to gossip, and humiliated Columbus as he had humiliated the great Gonsalvo. In 1497 Vasco de Gama doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and three years later Pedro Alvarez de Cabral, sailing in the interest of Portugal to Calicut, took possession...

...excellent state, and greatly extended his possessions in Africa, as well as making further discoveries. In 1497, Vasco de Gama doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and found his way to Goa, in the East Indies, where his treaties with the inhabitants were the foundation...

...Битягоин!, and has given ue an interesting accountof that июпмпЬ, in- court, and policy. In 1497, Vasco de Gama doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and arrived at Calkut in Indu. The Portuguese followed turn, and in 'JO years eet*il.|i,>bed torts and...