They captured a number of Amerindian aborigines, but only one of the two ships (with seven of these savages on board) reached Portugal; Gaspar Corte-Real was never heard of again.

His brother Miguel went out in search of him, but he likewise disappeared without a trace.
[Footnote 11: _Labrador_ (_Lavrador_ in Portuguese) means a labourer, a serf.

The Portuguese are supposed to have brought some Red Indians from this coast to be sold as slaves.] Nevertheless these Portuguese expeditions to North America have left ineffaceable traces in the geography of the Newfoundland coast, of which (under the name of Terra Nova[12]) the governorship was made hereditary in the Corte-Real family.

Cape Race for example--the most prominent point of the island--is really the Portuguese _Cabo Raso_--the bare or "shaved" cape--and this was by the Spaniards regarded as the westernmost limit of Portuguese sovereignty in that direction.

For the Spaniards were by no means pleased at the intrusion of other nations into a New World which they desired to monopolize entirely for the Spanish Crown.