Examples from literature

• And passing by Cape Verde he sailed on sixty leagues and found a river, where he judged there ought to be some people living. 
• At Madeira they were joined by two more, and the whole fleet sailed through the Canary island group to Cape Verde. 
• Having despatched my small affairs at the Cape Verde Islands I meditated on the process of my voyage. 
• He alleges many reasons in proof of this assertion, and even says particularly, that these early navigators sailed in forty days from Cape Verde to these islands. 
• They are called the Cape Verde islands, and are distant only a day's sail from the western part of Ethiopia.