Bento de Góis
Bento de Góis (1562, Vila Franca do Campo, Azores, Portugal - 11 April 1607, Suzhou, Gansu, China), was a Portuguese Jesuit Brother, Missionary and explorer. His name is commonly given in English as Bento de Goes or Bento de Goës; in the past, it has also been Anglicized as Benedict Goës.He is mainly remembered as the first known European to travel overland from India to China, via Afghanistan and the Pamirs. Inspired by controversies among the Jesuits as to whether the Cathay of Marco Polo's stories is the same country as China, his expeditionconclusively proved that the two countries are one and the same, and, according to Henry Yule, made "Cathay... finally disappear from view, leaving China only in the mouths and minds of men".
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| Birth date | January 01, 1562 |
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| Date of death | April 11, 1607 |
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- http://books.google.com.au/books?id=iLsWAAAAQAAJ
- http://books.google.com/books?id=wrBAXK9wOnUC
- https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthu14purcgoog
- https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthu14purcgoog#page/n248/mode/1up
- https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthu14purcgoog/hakluytusposthu14purcgoog_djvu.txt