. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. purchased from the coast chiefs, were con-stantly landed in Portugal. When the first excitement of trade was over, the Portuguese pressed further along the African coast-line. When Henry the A New Route Navigator died in 1460, others took up the to India ^^^^^ Y^^ jg£^ unfinished. In 1484 Diogo Cam discovered the mouth of the Congo;three years later (1487) Bartholomew Diazrounded the Cape of Good Hope ; and in1497-8 Vasco da Gama sailed up the EastAfrican coast to Mombasa and thenceacross the ocean to
. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. purchased from the coast chiefs, were con-stantly landed in Portugal. When the first excitement of trade was over, the Portuguese pressed further along the African coast-line. When Henry the A New Route Navigator died in 1460, others took up the to India ^^^^^ Y^^ jg£^ unfinished. In 1484 Diogo Cam discovered the mouth of the Congo;three years later (1487) Bartholomew Diazrounded the Cape of Good Hope ; and in1497-8 Vasco da Gama sailed up the EastAfrican coast to Mombasa and thenceacross the ocean to India, By the close ofthe century the whole of the African coastto Cape Guardafui had been explored andclaimed by Portugal by virtue of a PapalBull obtained from Pope Nicholas V. in 1454,and confirmed by Alexander VI. in Bulls gave the whole of Africa southof the Sahara to Portugal. None daredquestion the right of the Pope to grantsuch a monopoly, and for a centuryPortugal was without a rival in theAfrican trade. Forts were erected andcertain areas were colonised for the pur-. ⦠The Opening of the Dark Continent 13 poses of commerceânotably the GoldCoast, the region of San Paulo de Loanda,and East Africa. From the first the Portuguese exhibited Portuguesestrangely mixed motives in their relation-ship with Africa. Some, as ^ve have seen,were eager for gold. Others, approachingmore nearly to the pious ambitions ofHenry the Navigator, sought to bring theAfrican peoples within the pale of theirChurch. Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits,and Capuchins devoted themselves to thework with enthusiasm and, in many cases,with true Christian heroism. Some ofthem made long and dangerous journeysinto the interior in order to carry theGospel to the inland tribes. Their labourswere rewarded with a measure of , at its own request, received mission-aries. The King of the Congo w^asbaptised with many of his chiefs andpeople. In East Africa, a powerful Karangachieftain,
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