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Prince Henry — made governor of the Algarve in 1418 — had the money, influence, enthusiasm, and vision to lead and cajole the best astronomers, cartographers, boat-designers, and seamen of the day to expand Portugal’s maritime horizons.
You may be tempted into an overnight stay by the colorful inns and folksong taverns run by retired seamen, who look as if they escaped the old schooner stranded at the southwest end of the island.
Once the colonists were good enough seamen to land whales, it was perhaps only natural that they might turn their skills to another historical marine tradition: piracy.
Years later I read that the expression comes from the first two letters of Puteoli (Pozzuoli), near Naples, whose refineries produced such a stench in ancient times that seamen entering the Bay of Naples could smell the town long before they set eyes on it.
carousing of seamen in icebound ships.