Note 189-2 — JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS (continued 3)

This is one of the passages used to determine the date of Columbus’s birth. By combining his statement quoted in the Historie of Ferdinand, ch. IV., that he went to sea at 14, and this assertion that he followed the sea steadily for 23 years, we find that he was 37 years old in 1484 or 1485, when he left Portugal and ceased sea-faring till 1492.