very of America, and all the subsequent ventures
of the Cabots, of Amerigo Vespucci, of Cortes and Pizarro, De Soto and
Raleigh and the Pilgrim Fathers, are not often connected in any way with
the slow and painful beginnings of European expansion in the Portugal of
the fifteenth century, but it is a true and real connection all the
same. The whole onward and outward movement of the great exploring age
was set in motion by one man. It might have come to pass without him,
but the fact is simply that through him it did, as a matter of history,
result. "And let him that did more than this, go before him."

INDEX.

A

Abulfeda, 28

Adelard, of Bath, geographical postulates, 9, 10

Adelard or Athelard, 84

Affonso, comes of age, 257;
marries his cousin Isabel, 258;
forces Pedro into revolt, and declares war against him, 258, 259;
sends out Gomez with a large caravel, 296;
has the body of Prince Henry laid in chapel at Batalha, 305;
carries on the work of his uncle, Prince Henry, 312, 313;
is succeeded by King John II., 314

Africa, shape of, 13

Albateny, determined problems of astronomical geography, 19

Albertus Magnus, geographical postulates, 9, 11

Albuquerque, 125

Albyrouny, work of, 21

Alfarrobeira, battle of, 260

Alfred the Great, credit due to, for discoveries, 72;
efforts in exploration and religious extension, 74

Al Heravy, life of, 26

Almada, the Hercules of Portugal, 184;
stands by Pedro, 259;
dies, 260

Almamoun, age of, 18

Almanack, Arab, Latin translation of, 21

Ant islands discovered, 160

Antoninus the Martyr, an older Mandeville, 34;
legends of, 35

Arctic colonies checked, 59

Arculf, 42;
travels of, 43

Arguin, fort built in the bay of, 205

Arim, "World's Summit," 8;
taken as measure of places, 10;
twofold, 11

Armada of Lagos, 228-239;
"the third," 247

Athelard, or Adelard, 84

Aviz, House of. _See_ John, the King of Good Memory.

Azambuga, Diego de, 315

Azaneguys described by Cadamosto, 269

Azores, colonisation of, 251;
the entire group found, 254

Azurara, chronicler of voyages of Henry, 157

B

Bacon, Roger, geographical postulates, 9, 11

Baldaya, Affonso, sent out with Gil Eannes, 173;
his second voyage, 174-176

Batti, King, 285, 286

Batuta, Ibn, 27

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