What exactly is an Adamastor? A meteorological feature? My mom always used
it to refer to 'large' people so I use it too although I never gave it a
thought until now!
--Helga
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From: "Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goanet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet]Portugal ruled Indian state for 4-1/2 centuries
(Washington Times)
> You are right, Paulo. It was known as "Cabo das Tormentas" (or "Cape of
> Storms"), located at the meeting point of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans,
> where the giant Adamastor was supposed to create heavy winds et al. and,
> when Bartolomeu Dias succeeded in rounding it in 1488, it was renamed
"Cabo
> da Boa Eseranca" ("Cape of Good Hope"). And it is an irony of fate that he
> died precisely during a storm at that same place in 1500 when he was a
> member of the espedition of Pedro Alvares Cabral, who after discovering
> Brazil made his way to India.
>
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