Person
Diogo Gomes
Portuguese navigator, explorer and writer
Diogo Gomes (c. 1420 – c. 1500) is a Portuguese navigator, explorer and writer. Diogo Gomes is a servant and explorer of Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator. His memoirs are dictated late in his life to Martin Behaim. They are an invaluable (if sometimes inconsistent) account of the Portuguese discoveries under Prince Henry the Navigator, and one of the principal sources upon which historians of the era have drawn. He explored and ascended up the Gambia River in West Africa and discovered some of the Cape Verde islands.