Yvette Christianse (1999), Castaway, ISBN0822324210, ..Lopez and others had converted to Islam and sided with Moslem resistance to the Portuguese.
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New research published in 2015 has cast doubt on the traditional date of 21 May, suggesting 3 May as better fitting the historical facts - Ian Bruce, ‘St Helena Day’, Wirebird The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, no. 44 (2015): 32–46.[1]