Pêro da Covilhã
Pedro gold Pêro da Covilhã , or Pedro de Covilham (pron. IPA dɐ kuvi' ʎɐ̃}}) (towards 1460, Covilhã with Beira - after 1526), diplomat and explorer Portuguese.
It was sent in 1487, with Afonso de Paiva, by the king Jean II of Portugal to the research of the Priest-Jean, which one supposed in Abyssinie, the Arabia, the India visited (Calicut, Cananor, Goa), then the Eastern coasts of the Africa.
It penetrated finally in Abyssinie and there was well accommodated Négus, but was seen constrained has to remain in this country and finishes its days there: he lived in 1525 more. During its voyages it had acquired the certainty of the possibility of doubling the point of Africa and of arriving in India by this road: it prepared by there the forwarding of Vasco de Gama.
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