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In the winter of 1487, with two caravels and a supply ship, I pushed south along Africa’s uncharted coast, past the Rio do Infante, past the treacherous currents near present-day Port Elizabeth, until my crew refused to sail farther. We’d lost eleven men to storms and scurvy, and the wind howled from the southeast like a warning. Yet when we turned east and then north, sighting land again beyond what maps called ‘the end of the world,’ I named it Cabo das Tormentas, not for despair, but for the tempests that proved the continent could be rounded. King João II later renamed it Cape of Good Hope, but the truth is starker: I didn’t seek hope, I sought a route, and found it by trusting dead reckoning over dogma, latitude readings over hearsay, and the stars over superstition. My charts, now lost, were the first to record magnetic declination along the African littoral, a quiet revolution in navigational precision.
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