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Updated: June 14, 2025
He likewise demanded that the Spaniards should be restrained from fishing off Cape Bojador until it were settled amicably between the two crowns whether that were lawful.
Early voyages of Portuguese to coast of Africa Prince Henry of Portugal Cape Bojador discovered Madeira visited by Gonzales Dom Joao the Second Bartholomew Diaz discovers Cape of Storms, called by the King Cape of Good Hope Envoys sent to Prester John King Manuel fits out a squadron Appoints Vasco da Gama to command them Paulo da Gama Nicholas Coelho Grand ceremony at leave-taking Squadron sails Meet at Cape de Verde Islands Enter a bay on African coast Intercourse with natives Veloso nearly caught by them Ships stand off the land Terror of the crews Wish to return Da Gama refuses The Cape of Good Hope doubled Ships stand along south coast of Africa No natives seen A tremendous gale Clamours to return Mutiny suppressed by a device of Coelho's Da Gama puts his pilots in irons.
This they succeeded in doing; but on finding the sea breaking furiously on another cape farther to the south, to which they gave the name of Bojador, they also turned back. The next year the Prince sent a second expedition under Joao Gonzales.
This outstretcher for such is the meaning of the word bojador was, therefore, as a bar drawn across that advance in maritime discovery which had for so long a time been the first object of Prince Henry's life.
Then lifteth Zanzibar whose women are monsters and where the market is in elephant teeth. And so I come at last to the extremity of Africa which Bartholomew Diaz found my brother, Don Bartholomew being with him and named Good Hope. So I round Good Hope, and I come home by Cape Bojador which I myself have seen. I will pass Fez and Ercilla and the straits and Cadiz.
The prince rejoiced to see them, and gave thanks to God, "as if they had been the fruit and sign of the promised land; and besought our Lady, whose name the plants bore, that she would guide and set forth the doings in this discovery to the praise and glory of God, and to the increase of His holy faith." The old world had now obtained a glimpse beyond Cape Bojador.
Their course is S.S.W. until they reach the Canary Islands; after which they steer for the island of Palmas, which is opposite to Cape Bojador on the coast of Africa, and is about ninety leagues from the kingdom of Castile. This island has plenty of provisions, and abounds in wine and sugar.
The journals of the 29th and 30th afford nothing very remarkable. The hot winds from the desert of Sahara began to be felt, which told us we approached the tropic; indeed, the sun at noon seemed suspended perpendicularly above our heads, a phenomenon which few among us had ever seen. On the 1st of July, we recognised Cape Bojador, and then saw the shores of Sahara.
To clear a part for settlement they set the wood on fire, but being of a dry character, the trees burned until the whole were destroyed. Several years passed, when Prince Enrique dispatched an experienced seaman, Captain Gilianez, charging him to pass the dreaded Cape of Bojador. Gilianez proceeded thirty leagues beyond it, but dreaded to go farther.
Contrary to the assertions, or suppositions rather, of the discontented opposers of the patriotic and enlightened efforts of Don Henry, Gilianez reported that the sea beyond Cape Bojador was perfectly susceptible of navigation, and that the soil and climate were both excellent.
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