cruzadados

Updated: May 18, 2025

To each of the pilots, in the presence of the King, Vasco da Gama gave fifty cruzadados to leave with their wives, with which the King was greatly pleased, and still more so when the Captain-Major judiciously presented him, in a handkerchief, with ten golden Portugueses.

Henry Frith - Notable Voyagers: From Columbus to Nordenskiold