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He continued south down Namibia where another marker was left at Cape Cross.⁵ After this, not much is known what happened to Cão. However, he did not reach the Indian Ocean.

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• Axelson, Eric. Having lost sight of the land, Dias changed course and headed north.

  He commanded that the cape the explorer had named should instead be referred to as the Cape of Good Hope. Dias returned home to Lisbon in December 1488, where he made reports of his journey to King John II. While plans may have been made for another voyage upon Dias’ return home, it would be another nine years before he set out on an expedition again.

  He was also superintendent of the royal warehouse.

  

  He spent these years building ships. But with some luck and skill, Dias navigated these waters to open a new way to reach India from Europe.

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  Very little is known about Bartolomeu Dias’ (also spelled Bartholomew Diaz) early life. He had passed Africa’s southern tip.

  Dias rounded the cape and landed.

  Dias and his Successors. Cape Town, ZA: Saayman & Weber, 1988. Dias named the spot the Cape of Storms after all the terrible storms that occurred there. He traveled down the West African coast. 1450 – May 29, 1500), a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.

  Congo to Cape; Early Portuguese explorers. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973. When calm weather returned, he sailed in an easterly direction and, when no land appeared, turned northward, landing at the "Baía dos Vaqueiros" (Mossel Bay) on March 12, 1488. He reached the farther point of his journey on March 12 when they reached Algoa Bay.

  They erected a large stone cross and claimed the land for Portugal.⁷ Dias, was determined to make his way to India. Dias himself, now out of favor, lived for a while in the Portuguese trading center of Guinea. He is responsible for Portugal’s age of exploration.

  It appears that the Portuguese took a decade-long break from Indian Ocean exploration after Dias' return.

  He was commissioned as Sailing Master of the Portuguese man-of-war Sao Cristovao (San Christovao) around about 1481. The discovery of the passage around Africa was significant because for the first time Europeans could trade directly with India and the other parts of Asia, bypassing the overland route through of the Middle East, with its expensive middle men.

  Much of the trade routes to India during this time were held by Arab traders who often charged high taxes on incoming and outgoing goods.