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Gomes Eanes de Zurara

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010

Gomes Eanes de Zurara

Edited and translated by

Charles Raymond Beazley and

Edgar Prestage

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EDITORS' PREFACE
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF AZURARA
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
CHAPTER I Which is the Prologue, wherein the Author sheweth what will be his purpose in this Work
CHAPTER II The Author's invocation
CHAPTER III In which we recount the descent of the Infant Don Henry
CHAPTER IV Which speaketh of the habits of the Infant Don Henry
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
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
CHAPTER VII In which five reasons appear why the Lord Infant was moved to command the search for the lands of Guinea
CHAPTER VIII Why ships had not hitherto dared to pass beyond Cape Bojador
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
CHAPTER X How Affonso Gonçalvez Baldaya reached the Rio d'Ouro
CHAPTER XI Of the things that were achieved in the years following
CHAPTER XII How Antam Gonçalvez brought back the first Captives
CHAPTER XIII How Nuno Tristam reached the spot where Antam Gonçalvez was, and how he dubbed him knight
CHAPTER XIV How Antam Gonçalvez, and afterwards Nuno Tristam, came before the Infant with their booty
CHAPTER XV How the Infant Don Henry sent his embassy to the Holy Father, and of the answer that he had
CHAPTER XVI How Antam Gonçalvez went to make the first ransom
CHAPTER XVII How Nuno Tristam went to the island of Gete, and of the Moors that he took
CHAPTER XVIII How Lançarote required license from the Infant to go with his ships to Guinea
CHAPTER XIX Who were the Captains of the other Caravels, and of the first booty that they made
CHAPTER XX How they went to the island of Tiger, and of the Moors that they took
CHAPTER XXI How they, Lançarote and the others, returned in their boats to Tiger, and of the Moors that they took
CHAPTER XXII Of the reasons that Gil Eannes gave, and how they went to Tiger, and of the Moors that they took
CHAPTER XXIII How they went to Cape Branco, and of what they did there
CHAPTER XXIV How the caravels arrived at Lagos, and of the account that Lancarote gave to the Infant
CHAPTER XXV Wherein the Author reasoneth somewhat concerning the pity inspired by the captives, and of how the division was made
CHAPTER XXVI How the Infant Don Henry made Lancarote a Knight
CHAPTER XXVII How the Infant ordered Gonçallo de Sintra to go to Guinea, and how he was killed
CHAPTER XXVIII Of the reasons that the Author giveth for a warning as to the death of Gonçallo de Sintra
CHAPTER XXIX How Antam Gonçalvez and Gomez Pirez and Diego Affonso went to the Rio d'Ouro
CHAPTER XXX How Nuno Tristam went to Tira, and of the Moors that he took captive there
CHAPTER XXXI How Dinis Diaz went to the land of the Negroes, and of the Captives that he took
CHAPTER XXXII How Antam Gonçalvez, Garcia Homem, and Diego Affonso, set out for Cape Branco
CHAPTER XXXIII How they went to Ergim Island, and of the Moors they took there
CHAPTER XXXIV How John Fernandez came to the caravels
CHAPTER XXXV How Antam Gonçalvez went to make the ransom
CHAPTER XXXVI How they took the Moors at Cape Branco
CHAPTER XXXVII How the caravel of Gonçalo Pacheco and two other ships went to the isle of Ergim
CHAPTER XXXVIII How Mafaldo took forty-six Moors
CHAPTER XXXIX How they landed another time, and of the things that they did
CHAPTER XL How Alvaro Vasquez took the seven Moors
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Information: The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea , pp. i - viii

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709920 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2010

First published in: 1896

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