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A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499

Note c — APPENDIX G.

Ernest Georg Ravenstein translation

The name of Ponta de gran (“scarlet cloth cape”) may have been given to the Needle Cape before the supposed fact that the needle in its vicinity pointed due north had been observed.

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