It is here the governors and captain-generals of the islands have been buried.

Some of the tombstones recorded dates of the sixteenth century.

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The Cape de Verd Islands were discovered in 1449.
There was a tombstone of a bishop with the date of 1571; and a crest of a hand and dagger, dated 1497.) The heraldic ornaments were the only things in this retired place that reminded us of Europe.

The church or chapel formed one side of a quadrangle, in the middle of which a large clump of bananas were growing.