"Whoever enters this river Rio dos Forcados] will find that it branches to the right and to the left; five leagues up the left branch is a place of barter, which consists chiefly of slaves and cotton cloths, with some panther skins, palm-oil and some blue shells with red stripes which they call "coris." These and other things we buy there for brass and copper bracelets; they are all valuable at the castle of S. Jorze da Mina, where the King's factor sells them to the negro merchants for gold."
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Part II, ch. VIII, translated and edited by George Herbert Tinley Kimble (London, 1937), pp. 128-129
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Duarte Pacheco Pereira
1460 – 1533
Duarte Pacheco Pereira (c. 1460 – 1533) was a Portuguese explorer, navigator, conquistador, and cartographer. It is possible that he was the first to discover the mainland of America, in 1498.
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