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>
...</p>