No record has yet been found of any adequate reward for Diaz: on the contrary, when the great Indian expedition was being prepared (for Vasco da Gama's future leadership) Bartolomeu only superintended the building and outfit of the ships; when the fleet sailed in 1497, he only accompanied da Gama to the Cape Verde Islands, and after this was ordered to El Mina on the Gold Coast. On Cabral's voyage of 1500 he was indeed permitted to take part in the discovery of Brazil (April 22), and thence should have helped to guide the fleet to India; but he perished in a great storm off his own Cabo Tormentoso. Like Moses, as Galvano says, he was allowed to see the Promised Land, but not to enter in.
See João de Barros, _Asia_, Dec. I. bk. iii. ch. 4; Duarte Pacheco Pereira, _Esmeraldo de situ orbis_, esp. pp. 15, 90, 92, 94 and Raphael Bastos's introduction to the edition of 1892 (Pacheco met Diaz, returning from his great voyage, at the Ilha do Principe); a marginal note, probably by Christopher Columbus himself, on fol. 13 of a copy of Pierre d'Ailly's _Imago mundi_, now in the Colombina at Seville (the writer of this note fixes Diaz's return to Lisbon, December 1488, and says he was present at Diaz's interview with the king of Portugal, when the explorer described his voyage and showed his route upon the chart he had kept); a similar but briefer note in a copy of Pope Pius II.'s _Historia rerum ubique gestarum_, from the same hand; the _Roteiro_ of Vasco da Gama's First Voyage (_Journal of the First Voyage of ... Da Gama_, Hakluyt Soc., ed. E. G. Ravenstein (1898), pp. 9, 14); Ramusio, _Navigationi_ (3rd ed.), vol. i. fol. 144; Castanheda, _Historia_, bk. i. ch. 1; Galvano, _Descobrimentos (Discoveries of the World)_, Hakluyt Soc. (1862), p. 77; E. G. Ravenstein, "Voyages of ... Cão and ... Dias," in _Geog. Journ._ (London, December 1900), vol. xvi. pp. 638-655), an excellent critical summary in the light of the most recent investigations of all the material. The fragments of Diaz's only remaining pillar (from Diaz Point) are now partly at the Cape Museum, partly at Lisbon: the latter are photographed in Ravenstein's paper in _Geog. Journ._ (December 1900, p. 642). (C. R. B.)