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[Vasco da Gama asked Barnabe who ultimately discovered the Indies; you my boy, none else]



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[poor unknown Barnabe arriving; Restelo sands in sight; joining the gypsies , moved to Viseu; to Lamego; took refuge in caverns, named Saint ZAGAL]

[Berrio ship lost near Cape Verde]

[Paulo da Gama sick]

[Barnabe recalls ship Rafael burnt and sunk]

[Pero Mendes murdered by warriors of Mozambique Sheik]


[Barnabe able to talk to departed souls?]


[arriving at Terceira]

[greedy sovereign of Calicut}

[Vasco da Gama missing the beautiful sea of Sines; he retired in Nisa lands]

[Vasco da gama depicts Dom Manoel as Emperor of Christendom}

[Calicut, a second Babylon?]

[4 hours of torment; Barnabe hit by woodstick; elegant St Raphael showed up]


[14th April, 1515 in Nisa; Admiral the one who travelled twice to India recalls]

[Vasco da Gama invited the well-dressed Sheik on board; furious because the Koran was not in the ships] [hiding the serpent of cruelty]

[Barnabe recalled the year 1496, the decree which expelled the Jews]

[20th November 1497, Cape turned]

[three men saved Barnabe from the sharks]

[towards Cape of Hope, but the wind...}

[rats onboard; Barnabe hallucinating; caught by big wave; prays in Hebrew; saved by angel? ... were you really baptized?]

[voracious, little dirty boy, mute. hurting himself] [Barnabe pulled his ear; boy bites Barnabe's hand]

[Cape Verde isles; silent, little boy brought onboard; later to trade? He's under Barnabe observation]]

[Bartolomeu Dias escorted ship Rafael until Mina]


[blacks brought a group of women, who took over the mariners, one by one]

[Barnabe thinks of a criminal enterprise through the Atlantic]

[one week on departure, Barnabe longs to walk on solid gorund]

[In Lisbon Barnabe often had heard about the great Preste João; ...said to be wealthy, and christian]

[uncle Joseph travelled to Cairo, to meet with Pero da Covilhã, at stake map on Prestes, Pero was meant to hand to the king]

[Vasco da Gama still conjecturing about Messiah's advent]

[sarcastic comments by Vasco da gama on Columbus, a chatterbox] [Columbus departed from Palos in 1492, towards promised land, yet never reached the true Indies] [no secret about his Judaism]

[Sermon of the clergy man; Isle of Saint Brandão]

[Barnabe thought Dom Manoel was laughable; more magnificent than King Manoel was rich King of Solomon]

[Dom Manoel like a big monkey]

[Barnabe embarked on Rafael ship; fears his Judaism discovered; identical to Vasco da Gama?)

[Barnabe grabbed a piece of sand and spoke Hebrew]

[uncle Joseph came for a farewel]

[the fulfillment of Abraham Zakuto designs, who showed prognosis on planet earth to king Dom Manoel]]

[procession on the 8th July 1497; getting close to Restelo]

[Vasco da Gama to the crew: blessings from Jesus and Saint Mary who promised to defend this kingdom]

[Jeronimos monks trying to attract the King]

[the message from the beyond, was it a waking dream, or sleep dream? Barnabe recalls the Psalmist]

[Barnabe meets Vasco Da Gama: eyebrow, weak of constancy, an ageing youngman; something hidden is torturing him; has a penetrating stare, but not seducing]

[blue eyed Paulo Da Gama; fragility; more smiles than talk]

[July, year 1497; Barnabe promenading nearby the Tagus river; apparition: (dead) Andre Mendes shows up with a message: don't fear the future; then Barnabe has a visison of serpents; cries...]

["my name is Barnabe"...aged around 20]

[Barnabe is asked: weren't you baptized?]

[someone had said: he's a pig Jew]

[last day of October 1495: the King died; the King who sent Jews to S.Tome]

{Barnabe in Lisbon; meets again with uncle Joseph; "they died because of you", Joseph told Barnabe: "you, my serpent"]

[Joseph tells also: you will copy our ancestors; you will cross the Red Sea]

[Barnabe told uncle about Jezebel]