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CHAPTER XVI.
THE TROUBLES OF THE REGENCY AND THE FALL OF DON
PEDRO (1440-9) 257
CHAPTER XVII.
CADAMOSTO (1455-6) 261
CHAPTER XVIII.
VOYAGES OF DIEGO GOMEZ (1458-60) 289
CHAPTER XIX.
HENRY'S LAST YEARS AND DEATH (1458-60) 299
CHAPTER XX.
THE RESULTS OF PRINCE HENRY'S WORK 308
INDEX 325

ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
MAIN GATE OF THE MONASTERY CHURCH AT BELEM,
Frontispiece
Built on the site of an old sailor's chapel, existing in Prince Henry's day,
and used by his men. In the niche between the two great entrance doors,
is a statue of Prince Henry in armour.
THE MONASTERY CHURCH AT BATALHA[1] 132

West front of church in which Prince Henry and his House lie buried.
This church was founded by the Prince's father, King John, in memory
of his victory over Castille at Aljubarrota.
BATALHA CHURCH--PORTUGAL'S WESTMINSTER[1] 136
The aisle containing the tombs of Prince Henry and his brothers, the
Infants of the House of Aviz.
EFFIGIES OF KING JOHN THE GREAT AND QUEEN PHILIPPA
148
Henry's father and mother, from their tomb in the Abbey of Batalha.
GATEWAY OF THE CHURCH AT THOMAR 154
The Mother Church of the Order of Christ, of which Henry was
Grand-Master.
HENRY IN MORNING DRESS[2] 258
The original forms the frontispiece to the Paris MS. of Azurara's
Discovery and Conquest of Guinea.
COIMBRA UNIVERSITY 298
THE RECUMBENT STATUE OF PRINCE HENRY 306
From his tomb in Batalha Church; with his escutcheons (1) as titular
King of Cyprus; (2) as Knight of the Garter of England; (3) as Grand
Master of the Order of Christ.
ALLEGORICAL PIECE[3] 310
Supposed to represent Columbus, as St. Christopher, carrying across
the ocean the Christian faith, in the form of the infant Christ. From the
map of Juan de la Cosa, 1500.
VASCO DA GAMA[4] 314

From a portrait in the possession of the Count of Lavradio.
AFFONSO D'ALBUQUERQUE[5] 318
[Footnote 1: From a water-colour.]
[Footnote 2: From Major's Life of Henry the Navigator.]
[Footnote 3: From the Hakluyt Society's Select Letters of Columbus.]
[Footnote 4: From the Hakluyt Society's edition of Three Voyages of
Vasco da Gama.]
[Footnote 5: From the Hakluyt Society's edition of Albuquerque's
Commentaries.]

LIST OF MAPS.[6]
PAGE THE WORLD ACCORDING TO PTOLEMY 2
From Nordenskjöld's fac-simile atlas
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO EDRISI. c. 1150 24
As reconstructed by M. Reinaud from the written descriptions of the
Arabic geographer. This illustrates the extremely unreal and untrue
conception of the earth among Moslem students, especially those who
followed the theories of Ptolomy--e.g., in the extension to Africa
eastward, so as practically or actually to join China, making the Indian
Ocean an inland sea.
THE MAPPE-MONDE OF ST. SEVER 48
(B. Mus., Map room, shelf 35 [5], sheet 6). Of uncertain date, between
c. 780-980 but probably not later than the 10th century. One of the
earliest examples of Christian map-making.
THE ANGLO-SAXON MAP 54

(B. Mus., Cotton mss., Tib. B.V., fol. 59). This gives us the most
interesting and accurate view of the world that we get in the
pre-Crusading Christian science. The square, but not conventional
outline is detailed with considerable care and precision. The writing,
though minute, is legible; but the Nile, which, like the Red Sea in
Africa, is coloured red, in contrast to the ordinary grey of water in this
example, is made to wander about Africa from side to side, with
occasional disappearances, in a thoroughly mythical fashion. This map,
from a ms. of Priscian's Peviegesis, appears to have been executed at
the end of the 10th century; it is on vellum, highly finished, and has
been engraved, in outline, in Playfair's Atlas (Pl. I), and more fully in
the Penny Magazine (July 22, 1837). In the reign of Henry II., it
appears to have belonged to Battle Abbey.
THE TURIN MAP OF THE 11TH CENTURY 76
(B. Mus., Map room. From Ottino's reproduction). One of the oldest
and simplest of Christian Mappe-Mondes, giving a special prominence
to Paradise, (with the figures of Adam, Eve, and the serpent), to the
mountains and rivers of the world, and to the four winds of heaven. It is
to be associated with the Spanish map of 1109, and the Mappe-Monde
of St. Sever.
THE SPANISH-ARABIC MAP OF 1109 84
(B. Mus., Add. mss., 11695). The original, gorgeously coloured,
represents the crudest of Christian and Moslem notions of the world.
Even more crude than in the Turin map and the Mappe-Monde of St.
Sever, both of which offer some resemblances to this. The earth is
represented as of quadrangular shape, surrounded by the ocean. At the
E. is Paradise with the figures of the Temptation. A part of the S. is cut
off by the Red Sea, which is straight (and coloured red), just as the
straight Mediterranean, with its quadrangular islands, divides the N.W.
quarter,