"There are huge areas of trees which have been seriously damaged, " said Alejandro Hernandez Matamoros, whose family breeds 500 pigs annually in Jerez de los Caballeros near Badajoz.

Then they had as their captains Bartolomeo daBergamo, Roberto da San Severino, the Count of Pitigliano, and the like.

1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.