The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II

Note 130 — GOMES EANNES DE AZURARA;

C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley translation

Unless the contour of the Laurentian Map of 1351 is held to prove a circumnavigation of Africa shortly before 1351. The comparative accuracy of this outline, so incredibly good as mere guesswork, must remain one of the chief cruces of Mediæval geography.

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