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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Gaspar Corte-Real, Lancarote de Freitas, Goncalo Velho, Fernao de Noronha, Nuno Tristao, Afonso Goncalves Baldaia, Duarte Coelho Pereira, Goncalo de Sintra, Bartolomeu Perestrello, Antonio de Abreu, Fernao Gomes, Nicolau Coelho, Diogo Dias, Goncalo Coelho, Joao Alvares Fagundes, Manuel de Mederos, Martim Afonso de Sousa, Miguel Corte-Real, Antao Goncalves, Alvaro Martins, Fernao do Po, Pero Vaz de Caminha, Gil Eanes, Pedro Mascarenhas, Antonio Fernandes, Diogo Veloso, Lourenco Marques, Diogo Rodrigues, Dinis Dias, Pero Escobar, Tristao Vaz Teixeira, Paulo da Gama, Lourenco de Almeida, David Melgueiro, Pedro de Sintra, Afonso de Paiva, Diogo de Silves, Antonio da Madalena, Alvaro Caminha, Jorge de Menezes, Paulo Dias de Novais, Gaspar de Lemos, Pero de Barcelos, Luis Pires, Pero Dias, Baltazar Fernandes, Gomes de Sequeira, Pero de Alenquer, Andre Goncalves, Francisco de Lacerda, Diogo Soares, Joao de Santarem, Lopes Goncalves, Joao Infante, Joao Grego. Excerpt: Lancarote de Freitas, better known as Lancarote de Lagos or Lancarote da Ilha, was a 15th century Portuguese explorer and slave trader from Lagos, Portugal. He was the leader of two large Portuguese slaving raids on the West African coast in 1444-1446. Old Customs house of Lagos, Portugal, site of the first African slave market in PortugalLancarote de Freitas (better known simply as Lancarote de Lagos) was trained as a squire and chamberlain in the household of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator. Sometime in the 1430s or early 1440s, Lancarote was appointed by Henry as almoxarife (customs-collector) of Lagos, Portugal. The naval expeditions that Henry the Navigator had been sending down the West African coast since at least the early 1430s had, during their first few years, yielded little profit. They had sailed mostly along the Sahara desert coast, wit...
