death of that excellent prince, yet Cada Mosto, who then actually
resided at Lagos, could not be mistaken is this important particular.--
Astl.

[2] In a note to the second voyage of Cada Mosto, it has been already
noticed that he seems to have given the name of Rio Grande to the
channel between the Bissagos islands, or shoals of the Rio Grande and
the Main. This river Besegue, may possibly be the strait or channel
which divides the island named particularly Bissagos, or more properly
Bissao, from that of Bassis or Bussi. Yet, this river Besegue may even
have been that now called Rio Grande, in which, about twenty-four
leagues above its mouth, there is an island called Bissaghe.--E.

[3] It is strange that the Rio de Nuno, close by this cape, the estuary
of which is not less than seven or eight miles wide, should be here
omitted; but the present voyage is very superficially narrated
throughout.--E.

[4] The text is here obviously defective, as no river is mentioned before;
but the allusion must be to the river Pongo, Pongue, or Pougue, at the
mouth of which Cape Sagres is situated; indeed that cape seems to be
formed by one of the islands off the mouth of the river.--E.

[5] There are a number of small rivers on the coast, between Cape Sagres
and Cape Tagrin, such as Tofali, Dania, Buria, Berrea, Tanna, Pogone,
Cagrance, dos Casas; but our modern charts have none named as in the
text on this part of the coast.--E.

[6] This is now called Cape Tagrin, and forms the northern point at the
entrance of the Sierra Leone river, otherwise called the Mitomba or
Tagrin river. The southern point is named Cape Sierra Leone; and in
some maps is likewise named Liedo very improperly. It is necessary to
distinguish carefully between the _Cape_ of Sierra Leone, and the
mountainous ridge of the same name, which appears to extend a
considerable way along the coast to the S. E. near fifty miles, to the
river Kates, or Sa. Ma. della Neue. But, from the baldness of the
narrative, there is great difficulty in tracing out this voyage.--E.

[7] These are now called Bananas islands, in lat. 8 deg. N.--E.

[8] Perhaps the Camaranca.--E.

[9] Probably that now called Tassa Point, or Cabo de S. Anna.--E.

[10] This account seems again to refer to the river Camaranca and Tassa
Point; otherwise called Cape St Ann; yet this cape is b