Cabral makes preparations to resume the journey…

May 1500 CE

Cabral makes preparations to resume the journey to India.

The Portuguese pilots, assisted by the physician-astronomer Master João Faras and his astronomical instruments, determine that the land lies east of the Tordesillas line, prompting Cabral to formally claim Brazil for the Portuguese crown, bestowing upon it the name of Ilha de Vera Cruz ("Island of the True Cross"—later renamed Terra de Santa Cruz, "Land of the Holy Cross", upon the realization that it is not an island).

Cabral dispatches the supply ship back to Lisbon on May 2, with the Brazilian items and a letter to King Manuel I of Portugal composed by the factor’s secretary Pêro Vaz de Caminha to announce the discovery.

It also carries a separate private letter to the king from Master João Faras, in which he identifies the main guiding constellation in the southern hemisphere, the Southern Cross (Cruzeiro).

The supply ship will arrive in Lisbon in June.

Leaving behind a couple of Portuguese degredados with the Tupiniquim of Porto Seguro, Cabral orders the eleven remaining ships to set sail the next day and continue on their route to India via the Cape of Good Hope.

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