Sierra Leone
Luís de Camoes
Still to the south our pointed keels we guide,
And through the austral gulf still onward ride:
Her palmy forests mingling with the skies,
Leona’s rugged steep behind us flies;
From The Lusiad
The long poem The Lusiad, recounts the voyage of Vasco da Gama to India in 1497. His fleet stopped off in Sierra Leone on the way.
