Note 491 — Chapter VI · THE FINDING OF STRANGE COASTS.
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Footnote 491: The description usually given of this conference rests upon the authority of Remesal, Historia de la prouincia de Chyapa, Madrid, 1619, lib. ii. cap. vii. p. 52. Las Casas merely says that the question was referred to certain persons at the court, Hist. de las Indias, tom. i. p. 228. It is probably not true that the project of Columbus was officially condemned by the university of Salamanca as a corporate body. See Camara, Religion y Ciencia, Valladolid, 1880, p. 261.[Back to Main Text]