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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Now this much he told them painfully, being faint with fasting and light-headed: but afterwards falling into a delirium, he let slip certain words that caused Captain Zarco to bestow him in a cabin apart and keep watch over him until the ship reached Lagos, whence he conveyed him secretly and by night to Prince Henry, who dwelt at that time in an arsenal of his own building, on the headland of Sagres.
A partial list of these is as follows: C. R. Beazley, Prince Henry the Navigator ; G. Wauverman, Henri le Navigateur et L'Academie Portugaise de Sagres ; J. P. O. Martins, Os Filhos de Dom Joao I. ; M. Barradas, O Infante Dom Henrique ; A. Alves, Dom Henrique o Infante ; J. E. Wappaus, Untersuchungen uber... Heinrich . Two valuable essays, Prince Henry the Navigator and The Demarcation Line of Pope Alexander III., by E. G. Bourne, are republished in his Essays in Historical Criticism .
Don Henry appears to have taken no share in these disputes, except by endeavouring to mediate between his nephew and brother; and, after the unhappy catastrophe of Don Pedro, Don Henry returned to Sagres, where he resumed the superintendence of his maritime discoveries.
The text is here obviously defective, as no river is mentioned before; but the allusion must be to the river Pongo, Pongue, or Pougue, at the mouth of which Cape Sagres is situated; indeed that cape seems to be formed by one of the islands off the mouth of the river.
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