d'aveiro

Updated: May 20, 2025

In the next year, or the year following, John Alonzo d'Aveiro brought home from Benin pepper with a tail , being the first of the kind ever seen in Portugal. In 1487, King John sent Pedro de Covillan and Alphonzo de Payva, both of whom could speak Arabic, to discover India by land.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time