Antão Gonçalves and Dinis Dias

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Antão Gonçalves and Dinis Dias

Post by Anatol » Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:27 pm

ANTAN GONSALVE 1441:
Antão Gonçalves(on stamp to the left) was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer and slave trader who was the first European to buy Africans as slaves from black slave traders. In 1441, Gonçalves was sent by Henry the Navigator to explore the West African coast in an expedition under the command of Nuno Tristão . As Gonçalves was considerably younger than Tristão, his duty was less exploration than it was hunting the Mediterranean monk seals that inhabit West Africa. After he had filled his small vessel with seal skins, Gonçalves, on his own initiative, decided to buy some Africans to return to Portugal. With nine of his crewmen, Gonçalves bought an Azenegue Berber and a black tribesman who had worked as a slave for the Berbers. By this time, Tristão had arrived at the same place, and the two crews joined together for another purchasing trip, on which they bought 10 slaves, one of them an Azenegue chief. After this, Tristão continued exploration southwards while Gonçalves returned to Portugal. He embarked on another expedition in 1442, taking the Azenegue chief he had bought the year before. Gonçalves hoped to barter the chief for a number of the Azenegues' black slaves. He received 10 slaves, some gold dust and, curiously, a large number of ostrich eggs. However, this expedition contributed nothing to the cause of exploration; Gonçalves had not even sailed past the Río de Oro . He was granted a new Coat of Arms for his name. Not to be mistaken with another Antão Gonçalves, who coasted the Island of Madagascar at the beginnings of the 16th century.
DINIS DIAS 1445(Сape Verde):
Dinis Dias (on stamp to the right) was a Portuguese explorer of the 15th century. In 1445, Diaz, belonging to the well-known seaside family started to drive vehicles in his old age, and decided to do research because "he does not want to live in peace prosperity soft" and "wants to see and hear more than others" .He went out of Portugal and sailed along the West African coast, sailed past the mouth r.Senegal, set a new record, reaching a point about 800 km south of Cap Blanc. It is the westernmost part of the African continent, cape issued far out to sea and was overgrown with trees, he called Cap-Vert (Diaz called it Cape Verde, "Verde" by Portuguese "green", a reference to the lush vegetation in the area). Note that Diaz did not find the Cape Verde Islands, and in fact the Cape. He landed on both hills crowning the cape, set wooden crosses. The success of this expedition was possible because Diaz focused on exploration, rather than slaves, who were many Portuguese sailors in Africa, while in the spotlight. One expedition returns to Portugal with dozens of slaves, Diaz also only took four prisoners. Later that year, Dias sailed with the explorer Lançarote de Freitas in a large scale slaving expedition to Arguim . Medal - Portuguese navigator Dinis Dias- Vasco Berardo -1973-74.

Cabo Verde 1952;3,0e;SG352.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antão_Gonçalves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinis_Dias
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