In his 1490s memoirs, Henrican captain Diogo Gomes (p.276 [Архівовано 4 листопада 2020 у Wayback Machine.]) claims the bay was named Bezeguiche after a local mainland king. He does not, however, make mention of Álvaro Fernandes himself.
Viscount of Santarém, in the first edition of Zurara, (1841: p.408 [Архівовано 27 липня 2020 у Wayback Machine.]), basing himself on Juan de la Cosa map. But then Santarém (p.410) goes on to dramatically claim they continued sailing as far as Cape St. Ann in Sierra Leone, a gigantic leap from Diombos. Another source, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (op. cit), describes Fernandes as having sailed to «perhaps in the neighborhood of Conakry…but little short of Sierra Leone.»
In his 1490s memoirs, Henrican captain Diogo Gomes (p.276 [Архівовано 4 листопада 2020 у Wayback Machine.]) claims the bay was named Bezeguiche after a local mainland king. He does not, however, make mention of Álvaro Fernandes himself.
Viscount of Santarém, in the first edition of Zurara, (1841: p.408 [Архівовано 27 липня 2020 у Wayback Machine.]), basing himself on Juan de la Cosa map. But then Santarém (p.410) goes on to dramatically claim they continued sailing as far as Cape St. Ann in Sierra Leone, a gigantic leap from Diombos. Another source, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (op. cit), describes Fernandes as having sailed to «perhaps in the neighborhood of Conakry…but little short of Sierra Leone.»