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Nor do they explain satisfactorily what
Fernandes was doing in East Africa up to such a late date, and how he could have missed his comrades Saldanha & Ravasco, who were making a nuisance of themselves all over the area. Late 1503 seems the likelier date for the discovery & 'wintering' in Socotra.
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Costa (1973) suggests Diogo
Fernandes Pereira only discovered Socotra in April, 1504 and left for India only in May, which would suggest he did not make it to Cochin before the battle was largely over, and so this 'Diogo Pereira' must be a different person. But chronicles are very ambiguous on that.
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in the Fall of 1507, but we have no record of him there. More importantly, we have no record of his participation (or non-participation) in the mutiny against
Albuquerque at Hormuz. We do know Albuquerque elevated a certain 'Dinis Fernandes' to replace one of the mutinous captains; and we also know
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ship bound for India. How a master was elevated to captain of an India nau (usually a position reserved for nobles or wealthy men who 'paid' for the privilege) is uncertain. One possible conjecture is that the ship was not a crown ship, but a privately outfitted ship.
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a certain 'Diogo
Pereira' was involved in presenting the mutinous captains' petition to the vice-roy in Cochin. But there is no evidence or suggestion that either of these men can be identified with Diogo Fernandes Pereira.
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in 1509 and the name 'Don
Galopes' (another transcribed abbreviation) sometimes appears for that island in some maps. It went through its final name change, to Rodrigues island much later, after another Portuguese explorer
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through that route. The existence of the isolated
Christian community only made it even more appealing (the Portuguese had long hoped to find a Christian port of call in the Muslim-dominated
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on several ships - that is, as third officer, below the pilot and captain, a position which required trained navigational expertise, and may have served as pilot on other occasions.
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Fernandes returned to Portugal in 1505. His report on Socotra generated much excitement in the Portuguese court. The strategic placement of the island at the mouth of the
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Quintella (1839: p.273); chronicler Gaspar
Correia suggests, at various points (e.g. p.312, 320), that Fernandes may also have been on one of the ships of the
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transcriptions or abbreviations of 'Diogo
Fernandes'). He is said to have stopped for water at the first and third islands, before returning to Mozambique.
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was a highly valued balm in the markets of Arabia and India), it was unknown to the
Portuguese. Diogo Fernandes was also surprised to encounter a strong
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of Vasco da Gama, although this is clearly a mistake as that armada did not return to Lisbon before the 5th Armada left.
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that summer. We have no more records of him afterwards. If Diogo Fernandes remained aboard the
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whose day it was, February 9, 1507). He proceeded east to discover the island of
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after Socotra, he would have participated in the battle of
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80:First European to visit the island of
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192:(a very unusual combination) of a
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897:Diogo Lopes de Sequeira
892:Diogo Fernandes Pereira
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437:ilha de Diogo Fernandes
417:ilha de Santa Apollonia
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267:Rui Lourenço Ravasco
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1144:Gonçalo da Silveira
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942:Fernão Mendes Pinto
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1012:João Grego
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724:Dinis Dias
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