Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . VASCO DA GAMA* By Judge Albion W. Tourg£e(146(^1525). v Asco DA Gama was the pet of fortune. Neverdid a man win immortality more easily. Asa discoverer and a navigator he should rank notonly below Columbus, but also below BartolemeoDiaz and Cabral among his own countrymen, aswell as Vespucius and Magellan, who carried theSpanish flag, and the Cabots, who established Eng-lands claim to the most important portions of theNew World. As a commander, a
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . VASCO DA GAMA* By Judge Albion W. Tourg£e(146(^1525). v Asco DA Gama was the pet of fortune. Neverdid a man win immortality more easily. Asa discoverer and a navigator he should rank notonly below Columbus, but also below BartolemeoDiaz and Cabral among his own countrymen, aswell as Vespucius and Magellan, who carried theSpanish flag, and the Cabots, who established Eng-lands claim to the most important portions of theNew World. As a commander, an administrator,and ruler of newly discovered regions, however, heranks easily above them all. He not only led theway to India, but laid securely the foundations ofPortuguese empire in the East. Even in the hour of his birth he was Henry, surnamed the Navigator, to whoseindefatigable exertions for more than forty years was due that impulse to mari-time achievement of which the discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centurieswere the result, had just died, and his influence hung like an inspiration over the * Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess 140 WORKMEN AND HEROES little kingdo
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