Canary Islands
Canárias
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Atlantic archipelago near Madeira
The Canary Islands are the archipelago neighbouring Madeira, with disputed accounts of their discovery. Tradition holds that their Béthencourt king sold them to Prince Henry in exchange for lands in Madeira. The Elucidário notes many contacts between the two archipelagos, including scientific visits, the Orfeão Madeirense's tour in May 1922 and the massacre of forty Jesuits in their waters.
1Mentioned in
- Bornmuller (P.) — Also visited in his botanical journeys.
- La Pérouse (Jean-François de Galaup de) — Next destination of the expedition after Madeira.
- Meadows — Home of related forage shrubs gacia and tegasaste.
- Latzel (Dr) — Covered by his myriapod study.
- Osier — Importer of raw osiers in 1912.
- Lowe (Revd Richard Thomas) — Islands Lowe visited in 1858 and 1861.
- Martyrs (Forty) — Waters off which the forty Jesuits were massacred.
- Madeiran Choral Society — Islands visited by the Orfeão Madeirense in May 1922, where it was warmly applauded.
- Piorno — Home of the gacia, a distinct species.
- Bettencourt — Archipelago of which João de Bettencourt was king and lord.
- Thompson (I. C.) — Islands covered, with Madeira, by Thompson's copepod study.
- Discovery of the archipelago — Islands allegedly reached by the Portuguese in the 14th century.
- Corsa — Archipelago where the same vehicle is used under the same name.
- Phanerogams — Archipelago sharing many species with Madeira.
- Azevedo (Blessed Inácio de) — Waters near which the fleet was attacked.
- Palms — Origin of Phoenix jubae.
- Sport — Islands visited by Madeiran football teams.
- Webb (Felipe Baker) — Islands whose flora Webb is known for.
- Tábua (parish) — Where a Typha species occurs.
- Canary Islands — Subject of the entry, the neighbouring archipelago.
- Wild canary (Serinus canaria) — Part of the bird's native range.
- Island History — Treated in Book II.
- Nobre (António) — Alternative destination suggested for his health.
- Jesuits — Waters where the forty Jesuit martyrs were killed.
- Oceanography — Destination of ships drifted by currents and reference point for ocean depths.
- Livestock — Origin of many milk goats brought to Funchal.
- Isabel (Princess) — Where she sailed on leaving Madeira.
- Sack of Funchal by the French — Where the corsairs sold much of their plunder.
- Brown (A. Samler) — Archipelago also covered by the guide.
- Buch (Leopold von) — Destination after leaving Madeira.
- Sugar cane — Received sugar cane from Madeira.
- Belgium (King of) — Leopold's next destination.
- Belle Poule — Next destination of the frigate.
- Sfenzel (Johs.) — The Canary Islands, also covered in the book.
- Dragon tree (Dracaena draco) — Part of the dragon tree's native range.
- Cory’s shearwater (Puffinus kuhli) — Canary Islanders also call the bird pardela.
- Music — Twice visited by Passos de Freitas's musical group.
- Potato (semilha) — The first potato tubers brought to Madeira were imported from the Canary Islands.
- Madeira archipelago — Archipelago lying south of Madeira.
- Godman (Frederic du Cane) — Covered by the moss list in Godman's book.
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2Chronology
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According to Cordeiro, the Canaries were discovered for the third time by the Béthencourts.
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Thomas Nichols lived in the Canary Islands.
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Huguenot corsairs attacked the fleet off La Palma in the Canaries and killed the forty Jesuits, led by Inácio de Azevedo, who had passed through Madeira.
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La Pérouse's expedition aboard the Boussole called at Funchal, where he lunched with consul Murray and dined with Monteiro, before leaving for the Canaries on 16 August.
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Leopold von Buch and Christen Smith visited Madeira before sailing to the Canaries.
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Joaquim José da Costa de Macedo's memoirs on the Canaries were published.
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Kerhallet's work on Madeira, the Selvagens and the Canaries was published in Paris.
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I. C. Thompson published a study of the copepods of Madeira and the Canaries.
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King Leopold of Belgium visited Funchal, leaving for the Canaries on 19 September.
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The botanist P. Bornmüller botanised in Madeira and the Canaries, collecting lichens later studied by J. Steiner.
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Princess Elisabeth of Belgium stayed in Madeira, arriving aboard the Araguaya and leaving for the Canaries aboard the Kamerun.
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The Orfeão Madeirense and many Madeirans visited the Canary Islands, performing and being warmly received in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.