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The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II

Chapter 11: Transcriber's Notes:
By Gomes Eannes de Zurara
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This volume continues and concludes a contemporary chronicle of Portuguese exploration along the West African coast and the Atlantic islands under Prince Henry's patronage. It records voyages that extended Portuguese reach beyond long-feared capes, names key mariners such as Gil Eannes who passed Cape Bojador, and traces how the conquest of Ceuta stimulated maritime ventures. The narrative examines motives of discovery — scientific curiosity, dynastic ambition, and religious aims — and situates the sea voyages alongside Saharan caravan trade, earlier navigational attempts, and beliefs about Christian realms in Africa. Editors provide maps, notes, and an introduction treating cartography, coastal discoveries, and the debated School of Sagres.

africa, etc., in the laurentian portolano of 1351.         hakluyt. s. i. v. c

s. africa, according to fra mauro (1457-9).         hakluyt.

Transcriber's Notes:

Punctuation was standardized and minor punctuation errors corrected. Various spellings (mappemondo, mappamondo, mappamonde, mappamundi, mappemundi, mappe monde, mappe-monde) were changed to 'mappemonde' for consistency within the text.

Footnotes in the extended introduction are numbered 1-293. Footnotes in the text of the book, identified with special characters in the original, are identified here with letters A-CU. Endnotes, called "Notes" in the original, are numbered 1-223. Endnotes 1-112 and index page references 1-128 refer to Volume I. Copies of these were added to Volume I, and no hyperlinks have been included here.

The Endnotes contain two 75's and two 153's, even though there is only one each in the text. The second has been renumbered as 75a and 153a, respectively. Endnote anchors for 153a, 154, 155, and 156, missing in the original, have been added to the text.

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