Note 639 — Chapter III

Cf. Navarrete, Coleccion, iii. 19, note. Humboldt (Examen critique, i. 313) says that Vicente Yañez saw the coast forty-eight days before Cabral left Lisbon. As to the exact date of Vicente Yañez’ landfall, the Paesi novamente (chap. cxii.) gives it as January 20, while Peter Martyr (dec. i. chap. ix.), who usually follows the Paesi novamente, in his description of this and of the Guerra and Niño voyages gives it as “Septimo kalendas Februarii,” or January 26. But the difference is unimportant. [Cf. further the section on the “Historical Chorography of South America,” in which the question is further examined.—Ed.]