Henrique asked one of his African servants captured during the Reconquista how to build these ships and avoid sea beasts. After the servant laughed for about forty-five minutes at his captor’s belief that a gang of oceanic gremlins was out there taking down ships, he informed them that the sea thugs weren’t killing white people; it was the wind! Using this new knowledge, Henrique assembled a few local cartographers to draw new maps. Instead of charting the land and the seas, Henrique’s boys drew charts of the ocean currents and cornered the exploring market by mastering the “trade winds.”
