Editing Diogo Cão (section)

===Death===
Information regarding Cão's death is scanty and contradictory. A legend on the [[Erdapfel |globe]] created by Martin Behaim reads "''hic moritur''" (here he dies), seeming to indicate that the explorer lost his life on the coast of Africa in 1486 during his second voyage. However, sixteenth-century historian [[João de Barros]] never mentions Cão's death but wrote instead of his return to the Congo, and subsequent taking of a native envoy back to Portugal.{{sfn |Winius |2003}} 

A report by a board of astronomers and pilots presented at a 1525 conference in Badajo clearly stated that his death happened near Serra Parda. A coast map by [[Henricus Martellus Germanus]] published in 1489 indicated the location of a padrão erected by Diogo Cão in Ponta dos Farilhões nearby Serra Parda, with the legend "et hic moritur" ("and here he died").{{sfn |Ravenstein |1900 |page=637}}