Lisbon & Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal . m audience, doing honour to the self-sacrificingventure of the brave sailors. On the morn of embarkationVasco da Gama and his crews went in procession to thelittle hermitage chapel built by Prince Henry the Navi-gator on the strand at Restello. Preceded by the priest,they walked to make their farewell orisons, barefoot,bareheaded, every one carrying a lighted taper in thehand. Crowds of people conducted them to the portwhere, after receiving absolution, the great Captain andhis sailors embarked on July 8, 149
Lisbon & Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal . m audience, doing honour to the self-sacrificingventure of the brave sailors. On the morn of embarkationVasco da Gama and his crews went in procession to thelittle hermitage chapel built by Prince Henry the Navi-gator on the strand at Restello. Preceded by the priest,they walked to make their farewell orisons, barefoot,bareheaded, every one carrying a lighted taper in thehand. Crowds of people conducted them to the portwhere, after receiving absolution, the great Captain andhis sailors embarked on July 8, 1497, in number 170men. The voyage lasted two years and several months,fifty-five only out of the 170 returning. Many an hourof hope deferred, eager expectation and dreaming hadKing Manuel spent in watching for the sails of thesegalleons from Cintra heights, the fort terraces at Cascaes,and the strand at Restello, before they finally entered theport of Lisbon in September, 1499. Vasco da Gama was given a triumphal entry into thecity, rewarded with a pension, and created admiral of 54. ) The yero7iy7nos the seas of India. To immortalize the grand event caused a superb monastery to be erected on thesite of Prince Henrys little chapel at Restello. The Kingchanged the name of the locaUty to Belem, or Bethlehem,and gave the new edifice to the monks of the Order of StJerome, whence the name of the Jeronymos. In 1500 laid the first stone with great ceremony, the workprogressed rapidly, built with the white stone obtainedin the quarries of Estremadura, of so supple a quality thatit admits of the most delicate carving, and yet so durablethat the long, magnificent line of buildings facing theTagus shows no trace of age beyond the mellow goldenhue imparted by weather and time to the vast to its erection on piles of pinewood the monasterysuffered only small damage in the earthquake. The Por-tuguese consider the work their most finished exampleof Manueline arch
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