After sending back yet another caravel to Lagos, Lançarote proceeds with his five remaining ships around Cape Vert into Dakar Bay.

The squadron lands in the island of Bezeguiche (Gorée island), where they find a marker left behind by Álvaro Fernandes, a Portuguese explorer from Madeira who had preceded them there only a few weeks earlier.

Fernandes had attempted to take a few Wolof canoes captive, with the result that the Wolof tribesmen of the mainland are already alert and in arms against the arriving ships.

Not quite realizing this, Lançarote sends out Gomes Pires on a launch to the mainland to open contact with the local Wolof chieftains, but Pires's approach is prevented by a hail of arrows.

His first strategy foiled, Lançarote orders the Portuguese to prepare a raid on the mainland Wolof villages 'in the style of Arguin', but this comes to nothing.

Before being able to organize the attack, a sudden storm envelops the area, and forced the Portuguese caravels out of Bezeguiche bay, scattering them in various directions.

Lançarote manages to hold two other caravels (Álvaro de Freitas and Vicente Dias) together with him, but loses sight of the other two.

Realizing they are now too few to launch an attack on the Wolof mainland, Lançarote's trio sets sail back to the Arguin banks, where …