The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea

Gomes Eanes de Zurara; Charles Raymond Beazley; Edgar Prestage

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Volume 1: Chapters I–XL
Gomes Eanes de Zurara
Edited and translated by Charles Raymond Beazley, Edgar Prestage

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2010
Print publication year:: 2010
First published in:: 1896
Online ISBN:: 9780511709920
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709920

Subjects:: Area Studies, African Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History: General Interest, History, African History
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Gomes Eanes de Zurara (c.1410–1474) was a Portuguese writer appointed to chronicle the life of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394–1460) and the expeditions he sponsored. Zurara's chronicle of the discovery of Guinea appeared in this two-volume English translation in 1896–1899. The editors' preface includes an account of the voyages of exploration along the African coast sponsored by Prince Henry until 1448, together with biographical information about the author. Volume 1 contains chapters 1–40 of the Chronicle.

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

EDITORS' PREFACE
pp ix-xii

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF AZURARA
pp xiii-lxviii

THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
pp 1-1

CHAPTER I - Which is the Prologue, wherein the Author sheweth what will be his purpose in this Work
pp 1-6

CHAPTER II - The Author's invocation
pp 6-10

CHAPTER III - In which we recount the descent of the Infant Don Henry
pp 10-11

CHAPTER IV - Which speaketh of the habits of the Infant Don Henry
pp 12-15

CHAPTER V - In which the Chronicler speaketh briefly of the notable matters which the Infant performed for the service of God and the honour of the Kingdom
pp 15-21

CHAPTER VI - In which the Author, who setteth in order this history, saith something of what he purposeth concerning the virtues of the Infant Don Henry
pp 22-27

CHAPTER VII - In which five reasons appear why the Lord Infant was moved to command the search for the lands of Guinea
pp 27-30

CHAPTER VIII - Why ships had not hitherto dared to pass beyond Cape Bojador
pp 30-32

CHAPTER IX - How Gil Eannes, a native of Lagos, was the first who passed the Cape of Bojador, and how he returned thither again, and with him Affonso Gonçalvez Baldaya
pp 32-34

CHAPTER X - How Affonso Gonçalvez Baldaya reached the Rio d'Ouro
pp 35-38

CHAPTER XI - Of the things that were achieved in the years following
pp 38-39

CHAPTER XII - How Antam Gonçalvez brought back the first Captives
pp 39-43

CHAPTER XIII - How Nuno Tristam reached the spot where Antam Gonçalvez was, and how he dubbed him knight
pp 44-50

CHAPTER XIV - How Antam Gonçalvez, and afterwards Nuno Tristam, came before the Infant with their booty
pp 50-51

CHAPTER XV - How the Infant Don Henry sent his embassy to the Holy Father, and of the answer that he had
pp 52-54

CHAPTER XVI - How Antam Gonçalvez went to make the first ransom
pp 54-58

CHAPTER XVII - How Nuno Tristam went to the island of Gete, and of the Moors that he took
pp 58-60

CHAPTER XVIII - How Lançarote required license from the Infant to go with his ships to Guinea
pp 60-62

CHAPTER XIX - Who were the Captains of the other Caravels, and of the first booty that they made
pp 63-68

CHAPTER XX - How they went to the island of Tiger, and of the Moors that they took
pp 68-72

CHAPTER XXI - How they, Lançarote and the others, returned in their boats to Tiger, and of the Moors that they took
pp 72-74

CHAPTER XXII - Of the reasons that Gil Eannes gave, and how they went to Tiger, and of the Moors that they took
pp 74-77

CHAPTER XXIII - How they went to Cape Branco, and of what they did there
pp 77-78

CHAPTER XXIV - How the caravels arrived at Lagos, and of the account that Lancarote gave to the Infant
pp 79-80

CHAPTER XXV - Wherein the Author reasoneth somewhat concerning the pity inspired by the captives, and of how the division was made
pp 80-83

CHAPTER XXVI - How the Infant Don Henry made Lancarote a Knight
pp 83-86

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