Adamastor (Adamas`tor) , the giant spirit of storms, which Camoëns, in his “Luciad,” represents as rising up before Vasco de Gama to warn him off from the Cape of Storms, henceforth called, in consequence of the resultant success in despite thereof, the Cape of Good Hope.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Adam of Bromen * Adamawa