Note 16 — Chapter XIV · THE RICH COAST
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“Whatever he may have thought, or said he thought, when he was at Cuba, on the second voyage; whatever he thought, or said he thought, when in a half-crazed condition in the island of Jamaica, he now knew he really had discovered continental land, and that it was separated from Catigara, or the land of the east, by a goodly stretch of another sea.”
“And it is pleasant to think that such a view is consistent with the nautical, geographical and astronomical knowledge of the great Discoverer.”—Thatcher, Christopher Columbus, Vol. II. pp. 593 and 621. ↑