Cabotage

[Fr. from caboter, to sail along a coast.] ( Naut.) Coasting; coast-voyaging; coast-navigation; cruising in sight of the coast. Cabotville, in Ma achusetts . See CHICOPEE. Ca'bra, a town of Spain, prov. Cordova, 30 m. S.E. of the city of Cordova; pop . 12,183. Cabral', (or CABRERA,) PEDRO ALVAREZ, a distinguished Portuguese navigator. He was a contemporary of Vasco de Gama, and while undertaking an expedition to Calicut, took po e ion of Brazil for the Portuguese, ignoring the prior claims of the Spaniards, 1500. He established a commercial treaty between his country and India, and D. 1526.