(VII) A round trip probably required at least a year to complete.įolio 116 is rather dirty having been for many years in contact with a wooden cover. Ships sailed from Portugal to Guinea in the autumn in order to take advantage of favorable winds and ocean currents. Ceve is a popular name today in West Africa. The surviving early records rarely provide the names of African rulers. Oba is the title given to the rulers of West Africa tribes.
(IV) Noli was rewarded by the Portuguese King, who made him captain of Santiago Island, one of the Cape Verde Islands. In 1460, when Gomes and Noli were at Zaya (just south of Cape Verde), they were ordered to intercept a richly laden Castilian (Spanish) caravel sailing up the coast from Gambia (south of Cape Verde). They explored the Gambian river and are credited with the discovery of the Cape Verde Islands. Noli sailed with Diogo Gomes, the Portuguese navigator and explorer. A single slave would fetch $3,375 in today’s money. Today gold sells for $1350 dollars an ounce. (III) A ducat contains 3.5 grams of gold. A single slave sold in Seville, between the years 1500-1510, for 20 ducats. Labada is a town on the gold coast of West Africa, close to Cape Coast, currently called Mina (the Mine).Īntonio da Noli was a Genoa merchant who traded horses for slaves in Guinea, one horse for 25-30 slaves. Gold rock worth all manner of goods locate such like Mina (7) Filch a pile Vinci reencounter O Labada (1) + Noli (2) jeopardy + thee + Oba (3) + Ceve (4) + for me foolish, meĤ9 Vinci 8 dep(5) Africa.
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