Editing Diogo Cão (section)

===Second voyage===
[[Image:Matadi, Congo, pedra de Ielala, Diogo Cão.jpg|thumb|300px|Stone of Yellala, with the inscriptions of Diogo Cão]]
That Cão, on his second voyage of 1484–1486, was accompanied by [[Martin Behaim]] (as alleged on the latter's Nuremberg globe of 1492) is very doubtful. But it is known that the explorer revisited the Congo and erected two more ''padrões'' on land beyond his previous voyage. The first was at Cabo Negro, Angola, the second at [[Cape Cross]]. The Cape Cross pillar probably marked the end of his progress southward, some 1,400 kilometers.<ref name="EB1911"/> Diogo Cão also embarked the four indigenous ambassadors, that he had promised not to keep for more than fifteen moons.<ref name="Aderinto 2017 p. 300">{{cite book | last=Aderinto | first=S. | title=African Kingdoms: An Encyclopedia of Empires and Civilizations | publisher=ABC-CLIO | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-61069-580-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZAwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA300 | access-date=July 7, 2022 | page=300}}</ref>

Cão sailed 170 kilometers up the [[Congo River]] to the [[Yellala Falls]]. On the cliffs above this site an inscription was engraved which records the passage of Cão and his men: "Here arrived the ships of the illustrious monarch, [[John II of Portugal |Dom João the Second of Portugal]] – Diogo Cão, Pedro Anes, Pedro da Costa, Alvaro Pires, Pero Escolar".{{sfn |Winius |1995 |page=97}}