Nuno Tristão

Nuno Tristão († 1446 for Cape Verde) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer.

Life

As a protégé of Henry the Navigator Tristão participated in four expeditions. At least two of those trips were made in collaboration with Antão Gonçalves, a relative by João Gonçalves Zarco, the discoverer of Madeira again. In 1441 he commanded a ship that sailed to the Rio de Oro and Cape Blanc. On this trip, the Portuguese brought the first African slaves forcibly to Portugal. 1443 and 1444 he stood again in lake and reached the Senegal. He named the area Terra dos Negros ( " land of the blacks "). 1446 he drove past the Cape Verde and reached the Gambia. There he was poisoned arrows of the natives, he wanted to procrastinate with his people as slaves, mortally wounded and died on the return journey at Cape Verde.