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See also:FERNANDEZ, ALVARO , one of the leading Portuguese explorers of the earlier 15th See also:century, the See also:age of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry the Navigator. He was brought up (as a See also:page or See also:esquire) in the See also:household of See also:Prince Henry, and while still " See also:young and audacious " took an important See also:part in the See also:discovery of " See also:Guinea." He was a See also:nephew of Joao Goncalvez Zarco, who had rediscovered the See also:Madeira See also:group in Henry's service (1418-1420), and had become part-See also:governor of Madeira and See also:commander of See also:Funchal; when the See also:great expedition of 1445 sailed for See also:West See also:Africa he was entrusted by his See also:uncle with a specially See also:fine See also:caravel, under particular injunctions to devote himself to discovery, the most cherished See also:object of his princely See also:master, so constantly thwarted.
Femandez,as a See also:pioneer, outstripped all other servants of the prince at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. After visiting the mouth of the See also:Senegal, rounding Cape Verde, and landing in See also:Goree (?), he pushed on to the " Cape of Masts " (Cabo dos Matos, or Mastos, so called from its tall spindle-palms), probably between Cape Verde and the See also:Gambia, the most southerly point till then attained. Next See also:year (1446) he returned, and coasted on much farther, to a See also:bay one See also:hundred and ten leagues " See also:south " (i.e. S.S.E.) of Cape Verde, perhaps in the neighbourhood of Konakry and the Los Islands, and but little See also:short of Sierra Leone. This See also:record was not broken till 1461, when Sierra Leone was sighted and named. A See also:wound, received from a poisoned arrow in an encounter with natives, now compelled Fernandez to return to See also:Portugal, where he was received with distinguished See also:honour and See also:reward by Prince Henry and the See also:regent of the See also:kingdom, Henry's See also:brother Pedro.
See Gomes Eannes de See also:Azurara, Chronica de . . Guine, chs. lxxv., lxxxvii.; Joao de See also:Barros, See also:Asia, See also:Decade I., bk. i. chs. xiii., xiv.
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