Bartolomeo, a Portuguese navigator, placed in 1486 at the head of a small squadron fitted out by John II., to make discoveries on the east coast of Africa. He sailed round the south point of that continent, to which he gave the name of Cabo Tormentoso, but was compelled to return on account of a mutiny on board his ships. The king altered the name of the cape to its present appellation, viz., the Cape of Good Hope. In 1500 Diaz sailed with Cabral to the West Indies.