Chapter XXIV

Prince Henry of Portugal.--Discovery of Porto Santo and Madeira.
--Doubling of Cape Bojador.--Discovery of the Cape Verde Islands.
--Bartholomew Diaz.--Vasco de Gama.--Columbus.--His Predecessors.
--Discovery of Greenland by Günnbjorn.--Bjorne Herjulfson.--Leif.
--John Vaz Cortereal.--John and Sebastian Cabot.--Retrospective
View of the Beginnings of English Navigation.--Ojeda and Amerigo
Vespucci.--Vincent Yañez Pinson.--Cortez.--Verazzani.--Cartier.
--The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean 454