The slave of imperial despotism, whether he was condemned to drag the gilded chain in Rome and his senate, or to wear out a life of exile on the barren rocks of Seriphus, or the frozen banks of the Danube, expected his fate in silent despair.
To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly.

On every side he was encompassed with a vast extent of sea and land, which he could never hope to traverse without being discovered, seized, and restored to his irritated master.

GIBBON'S Decline and Fall, vol.i.p.

97, Oxford Edition.] [Illustration: Contemporary map of the world.] [Illustration: 1490 map of the world includes only Europe, Asia and the northern 1/4 of Africa.

Excludes the Americas, Greenland, and Australia.] PRINCE HENRY OF PORTUGAL; HIS MOTIVES FOR DISCOVERY.
This prince was born in 1394.