Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1929, Page 134

@o EUROPEANS OF THE \STHCENTURY THE ATLANTIC OCEAN WAS " THE SEA OF DARKNESS © SALORS WERE AFRAID TO VENTURE PAR FROM LAND - BECAUSE OF THE GENERAL —— _BELIEF THAT THE OCEAN WAS THE HOME OF ALL SORTS OF TERRIBLE MONSTERS THAT DRAGGED SHIPS DOWN TO DESTRUCTION. 1010, 0 ,OME 15T CENTURY = CONCEPTIONS OF SEA MONSTERS, — © HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY umue THE 15TH CENTURY THE MARINERS OF ELIROPE WERE TRYING TO FIND A WAY Jo REACH INDIA BY SEA. SoME BELIEVED THAT INDIA coulD BE REACHED BY SAILING AROUND AFRICA, AT THATY TIME E UROPEANS WERE FAMILIAR WITH ONLY THE NORTHN- ERN COASTS OF AFRICA . THEY KNEW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF THE REST OF THE VAST CONTINENT OR OF THE WATERS THAT BOUND IT ON THE WEST, EAST AND SOUTH. ° EQE wu A SANARA AFRICA © McClure Newspaper Syndicate @N 1445 THE PORTUGESE NAVIGATOR DINIZ DIAZ ROUNDED CAPE VERDE, SEEING A GREAT BODY OF WATER STRETCHING AWAY TO THE EAST, HE THOUGHT HE HAD REACHED THE SOUTHERN EXTREMITY OF AFRICA , BUT WAS DOOMED TO DISAPPOINTMENT. STIMULATE THE INTEREST OF EUROPEANS IN EXPLORATION BY SEA DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE ISTHCENTURY WAS PRINCE HENRY "THE NAVIGATOR” OF PoRTUGAL . = i LEARNED COMPANY OF MOORISH AND JEWISH SCIENTISTS HE ATTEMPTED TO PROVE THE INFLUENCE OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES ON THE EBB AND ELOW OF TME TIDE. EEKING AN ALL-WATER ROUTE O INDIA, HENRY SENT SHIPS SOUTH- WARD TO SKIRT THE COAST OF AFRQICA ,HOPING TO FIND A WAY TO SAIL AROUND THAT CONTINENT. B'IHEQ PORTUGESE CAPTAINS REACHED THE IVORRY CDAST. SOME OF THEM FOUND THE PRACTISE OF KIDNAPPING BLACK MEN 1O SELL IN EUROPE MORE PROFITABLE THAN EXPLORATION, AND SO THE ODIoUS AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE BEGAN, — * 74X =¥ e N ‘ ITN A IREEN LOVE OF THE SEA, HENRY SETOUT TO LEARN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ABOUT THE OCEAN ITSELF, 50 THAT HE MIGHT DISPROVE THE TERRIFYING LEGENDS THAT MADE SAILORMEN NMUG THE SHORE., —* (5 BY TWO NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS WHICH HAD LATELY COME INTO USE, THE COMPASS AND THE ASTROLABE, THE LATTER A DEVICE TO ASCERTAI LATITUDE BY THE SUN. . @chs HENRY DIED IN 1460 wiTHOUT SEEING HIS DREAM OF A WATER ROUTE AROUND AFRICA COME TRUE . How- EVER, THE-EXPLORATIONS OF THE PORTUGESE DiD NOT CBASE WITN Ewoam.v THERE werP 80 SEA-GOING ARTSTS IN THOSE DAYS, AND TNESE CONCEPTIONS OF “SEA MONSTERS ° WERE DOLBT» LESS BASE[> ON SAILORS’ ' 4 3 7% ~F / - @IGH ON THE CLIFFS OF THE ROCKY PENINSULA AT SAGRES OVERLOORING THE ATLANTIC HE BUILT AN OBSERVATORY WHERE HE CouLD STUDY THE TIDES AND WINDS. 5/ Lo IS CAPTAINS VENTURED FURTHER AND FURTHER DOWN THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA . ON THEIR RETURN THEIR DISCOVERIES WOULD BE RECORDEL> ON THE PORTOLANI" (SAILING CHARTS), OF THE PORTU- GESE-1419-1488 |fl1 LAST, IN 1488, BARTHOLOMEW DIAZ SAILED AROUND THE SOUTHERN TIP OF AFRICA WHICH NE CALLED * THE CAPE OF STORMS,, BUT TO WHICH THE RING OF PORTUGAL GAVE THE