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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QB] Yup, my researches concur with yours on this [QUOTE]A couple of centuries after Abubakari II the Portuguese made themselves familiar along W Afr's Atlantics and king Dom João II learned merchant mariners were crossing the Atlantic. [IMG]https://s9.postimg.cc/dso3djhan/christophercolu02thacgoog_0008.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://s9.postimg.cc/nop6dgaan/Thacher_V2_379a_1.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]https://egyptsearchreloaded.proboards.com/post/21296 [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Geber: [qb] [QUOTE] currents running along the west coast of Africa loop westward toward the Americas. Some modern scholars have suggested that [URL=http://ndrln]a ship could sail from Africa to the Americas almost without any navigation. In 1500, for example, the Portuguese fleet of Alvares Cabral was caught in a storm off the coast of West Africa and ended up in Brazil.[/URL] [/QUOTE]J. F. A. Ajayi and Michael Crowder, eds., The History of West Africa, second edition, 2 volumes (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, 1987). [QUOTE]Originally posted by Son of Ra: Here is something interesting that Brada posted on my thread on Egyptsearch Reloaded. [b]ORIGINAL NARRATIVES OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY REPRODUCED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION General Editor, J. FRANKLIN JAMESON, Ph.D., LL.D. DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON THE NORTHMEN, COLUMBUS, AND CABOT 985-1503 INTRODUCTION This letter, the earliest published narrative of Columbus’s first voyage, was issued in Barcelona in April, 1493, not far from the time when the discoverer was received in state by the King and Queen. The Escribano de Racion, to whom it was addressed, was Luis de Santangel, who had deeply interested himself in the project of Columbus and had advanced money to enable Queen Isabella to meet the expenses of the voyage. He, no doubt, placed a copy in the hands of the printer. Only two printed copies of this Spanish letter, as it is called, have come down to us. One is a folio of the first imprint, discovered and reproduced in 1889. Of this the unique copy is in the Lenox Library in New York; its first page is reproduced in facsimile in this volume, by courteous permission of the authorities of the library. The other is a quarto of the second and slightly corrected imprint, first made known in 1852 and first reproduced in 1866. Facsimiles of both are given in Thacher’s Christopher Columbus, II. 17-20 and 33-40.[/b] [IMG]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18571/18571-h/images/image02-full.jpg[/IMG] [i]Facsimile of the first page of the folio (first) edition of the Spanish text of Columbus's letter to Santangel, describing his first voyage, dated February 15, 1493.[/i] [QUOTE]Certain principal inhabitants of the island of Santiago came to see them and they said that to the south-west of the island of Huego, which is one of the Cape Verde Islands distant 12 leagues from this, may be seen an island, and that the King Don Juan was greatly inclined to send to make discoveries to the south-west, [b]and that canoes had been found which start from the coast of Guinea and navigate to the west with merchandise.[/b][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Wednesday, July 4, he ordered sail made from that island in which he says that since he arrived there he never saw the sun or the stars, but that the heavens were covered with such a thick mist that it seemed they could cut it with a knife and the heat was so very intense that they were tormented, and he ordered the course laid to the way of the south-west, which is the route leading from these islands to the south, in the name, he says, of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, because then he would be on a parallel with the land of the sierra of Loa327-1 and cape of Sancta Ana in Guinea, which is below the equinoctial line, where he says that below that line of the world are found more gold and things of value; and that after, he would navigate, the Lord pleasing, to the west, and from there would go to this Española, in which route he would prove the theory of the King John aforesaid; [b]and that he thought to investigate the report of the Indians of this Española who said that there had come to Española from the south and south-east, a black people who have the tops of their spears made of a metal which they call guanin, of which he had sent samples to the Sovereigns to have them assayed, when it was found that of 32 parts, 18 were of gold, 6 of silver and 8 of copper.[/b] [/QUOTE] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18571/18571-h/18571-h.htm#to_Canaries Columbus own report. [/QUOTE][/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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