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Black eunuch guarding the harem of the king of Fez. Illustration for Leo Africanus, "Historiale description de l'Afrique…" (Lyons, 1556), vol. I, p. 179

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~At the instigation of Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese eventually achieved the circumnavigation of Africa. In 1445, Dinis Dias reached the mouth of the Senegal River and Cape Verde, south of the Sahara. Then,...
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00141.006

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