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People: Yaropolk II of Kiev
Location: Xanten Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany

...Cadamosto, Usodimare and the Portuguese squire sail …

Years: 1455 - 1455
July

...Cadamosto, Usodimare and the Portuguese squire sail south, down the Petite Côte until they reach the Sine-Saloum delta, a stretch inhabited by the Sereri (Serer people).

Cadamosto has nothing good to say about the Serer, characterizing them as savage idolaters "of great cruelty" (his information is being drawn principally from Wolof interpreters).

Cadamosto claims he was the one who named the Saloum River as the Rio di Barbacini, the name by which it would remain known on European maps thereafter.

Cadamosto and Usodimare try to put in here, but quickly decide against it when an interpreter they land to make contact with the local Serer natives gathered on the beaches is killed on the spot.