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ile of Mayo. About noon we approached the ile of San Jago, and anchored at three o'clock in the afternoon in Porto-Praya.

Early the next morning we went on hore, and viited the commandant of the fort, Don Joeph de Sylva, a good-natured man, who poke the French imperfectly, and introduced us to the governor-general of the Cape-Verd ilands. This gentleman, whoe name was Don Joachim Salama Saldanha de Lobos, commonly reides at St. Jago, the capital of the iland; but as he was very ickly, which his complexion witneed for him, he had retired hither about two months ago, where the air is reckoned more alubrious. He occupied the apartments of the commandant, who was now obliged to dwell in a wretched cottage, and who gave us ome information relative to thee ilands.

In 1449, Antonio Nolli, probably by others named Antoniotto, a Genoee in the ervice of Don Henry, Infante of Portugal, dicovered ome of the Cape-Verd islands, and on the irt of May landed on one of them, which had its name from thence. St. Jago was seen at the same time. In 1460, another voyage was undertaken in order to ettle them; and on this occasion the remaining islands were likewise discovered. San Jago is the greatet of them, and about eventeen leagues in length. The capital, of the same name, lies in the interior parts of the country, and is the see of the bihop of all the Cape Rh