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To: bmwcyle
 
 
Found that "yorra" word, or word used as a name, in some areas around the world that I am sure were accessed by Portuguese - and Spanish - adventurers looking for opportunity on the high seas centuries ago.
 
 
 
 
And here's this at http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/list/00-07.txt, though I can't vouch for it's accuracy -
 
"From what I can gather the terms of the treaty were that the ships and crews of the expedition(s) were to be provided by King Christian I and that Portuguese interests would be overseen by one Joao ("Yorra") vas [vaz] Corte Real, apparently a Portuguese nobleman with nautical connections. It might be noted here that the major base of Portuguese explorations was at Sagres, near Gibraltar, the port of which is at Lagos, a few miles away. Just a few miles west of Lagos is Palos, Spain, both places intimately familiar to Christopher Columbus, the former a place of salvation to him after his swim to shore in 1476, the latter his port of departure in 1492."
 
 
 

601 posted on 01/21/2006 9:53:44 AM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! !)
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To: lapsus calami

Thanks for the info.


604 posted on 01/21/2006 9:55:25 AM PST by bmwcyle (As the left takes to the streets the too many lazy Freeper sleep)
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