1549. Tomé de Souza’s Portuguese caravels arrived. A History tainted by slavery started.
Caravels passed.
1624. Crossfires of Santa Maria and São Diogo forts against Dutch invaders
Caravels passed.
1719. In Daniel Defoe’s fiction, Robinson Crusoe disembarked at All Saints’ bay and planted tobacco before shipwrecking on a desert island
Caravels passed
1831. Charles Darwin on sailboat Beagle stopped by on his way to Galapago Archipelago. He also stopped by on his way back.
Sailboats passed.
1940. Stefan Zweig stopped by. He thought he was in the country of the future
Saveiros passed
They stopped
In Alberto Valença’s paintings

Poem by Vera Spínola translated from Portuguese.

SPÍNOLA, Vera. Conversando com a Pintura de Alberto Valença: Um romance biográfico. Back cover.