Note 425 — Chapter VI · THE FINDING OF STRANGE COASTS.
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Footnote 425: "Spesse volte navigando da Lisbona a Guinea," etc. Vita dell' Ammiraglio, cap. iv. The original authority is Columbus's marginal note in his copy of the Imago Mundi of Alliacus, now preserved in the Colombina at Seville: "Nota quod sepius navigando ex Ulixbona ad austrum in Guineam, notavi cum diligentia viam, etc." Compare the allusions to Guinea in his letters, Navarrete, Coleccion, tom. i. pp. 55, 71, 101.[Back to Main Text]