theveiansandthegenoesehadbeenthegreatnavigators</p>

ofthediterranean,butthehonourforexplthe</p>

astoftheatlanticgoestothepuese.spainandpal</p>

hatpatriotiergyheirageold</p>

struggleagainsttheorishinvadershaddeveloped.such</p>

energy,oexists,easilybefortonehannels.</p>

ihirteeury,kingalphonsoiiihadnquered</p>

thekingdofalgarveiheerofthe</p>

spanishpeninsulaandhadaddedittohisdonions.inthe</p>

tury,thepuesehadtuedthetablesonthe</p>

haedans,hadcrossedthestraitsofgibraltarandhad</p>

takenpossessioa,oppositethearabiityoftarifa</p>

aeans``ioryandhbyway</p>

ofthespanishlanguagehasedoousas``tariff,and</p>

tangiers,ethecapitalofanafriadditionto</p>

algarve.</p>

theyobegintheircareerasexplorers.</p>

intheyear1415,prinry,knohe</p>

navigator,thesonofjohnialandphilippa,the</p>

daughterofjohnofgauntaboutyoureadin</p>

richardii,aplaybyshakespearebegantoke</p>

preparationsforthesysteticexplorationofnorthe</p>

africa.beforethis,thathotandsandyasthadbeenvisited</p>

bythephoenien,eeredit</p>

asthehoofthehairy``ao</p>

knohegorilla.oeranother,prinry</p>

andhiscaptainsdisveredthearyislandsredisvered</p>

theislandofdeiraurybeforehadbeenvisited</p>

byagenoeseship,hartedtheazoreshhad</p>

beenvaguelyknooboththepueseandthespaniards,</p>

andouthofthesenegalriveron</p>

theastofafrica,heysupposedtobethee</p>

uthofthelast,bytheddleofthefifteenth</p>

tury,theysahegreencape,andthe</p>

capeverdeislands,osthalfhe</p>

astofafridbrazil.</p>

buthenrydidricthielfinhisiigationsto</p>

theasteroftheorder</p>

ofchrist.thisuguesentinuationofthecrusading</p>

orderofthetelarshhadbeenabolishedby</p>

popetvintheyear1312attherequestofking</p>

philipthefairoffrance,provedtheoasionby</p>

buinghisoplarsatthestakeandstealingalltheir</p>

possessions.prinains</p>

ofhisreligiousordertoequipseveralexpeditionshexplored</p>

thehinterlandofthesaharaandoftheastofguinea.</p>

butheuiddleagesand</p>

spentagreatdealoftiandoneyupona</p>

searysterious``presserjohhihristian</p>

priestperorofavasteire</p>

``situatedsoheeast.thestoryofthisstrange</p>

potentatehadfirstbeentoldineuropeintheddleofthe</p>

thtury.forthreehundredyearspeoplehadtried</p>

tofind``presserjohnandhisdesdaookpart</p>

inthesearch.thirtyyearsafterhisdeath,theriddlewas</p>

solved.</p>

intheyear1486bartht</p>

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