That the middle and eastern groups of the Azores, like the Madeira group, were discovered by Portuguese vessels, under Genoese pilotage, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, is proved by the simple fact, that they also appear in the Laurentian map of 1351. The same facts which have enabled us to unfold the history of the discovery of the Madeira group, apply with equal force to the others. The Prince gave Cabral the command of this second Island, also with instructions to colonize it, and a year having been spent in the needful preparations, the explorer returned thither on the 29th of September, 1445. "The islands of the Azores were colonized in 1466, when they were given by the King of Portugal, after much solicitation, to his sister Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy.