 | 1870 - 416 Seiten
...JUtsccwern anJr Naming af America. [FROM THE LIFE OF PRINCE HENRY OF PORTUGAL.] EY RICHARD HENRY MAJOR. |T was in Portugal," said Ferdinand Columbus, the son...Columbus' sojourn in Portugal was from 1470 to the close 1484, during which time he made several voyages to the coast of Guinea in the Portuguese service. While... | |
 | 1870 - 430 Seiten
...the Mediterranean about the period referred to. His son, Ferdinand Columbus, distinctly states that, "it was in Portugal that the admiral began to surmise,...lands in that direction." The period of Christopher Columbus's sojourn in Portugal was from 1470 to the close of 1484, during which time he made several... | |
 | Bombay city, univ - 1880 - 754 Seiten
...Columbus, the son and biographer of the most illustrious navigator that the world has seen, " it was iu Portugal that the admiral began to surmise, that,...period of Christopher Columbus' sojourn in Portugal wa» from 1470 to the close of 1484, during which time he made several voyages to the coast of Guinea... | |
 | Manchester Geographical Society - 1892 - 386 Seiten
...had originated. " It was in Portugal," said Ferdinand Columbus, the eon of the great discoverer, " that the admiral began to surmise that if the Portuguese sailed so far south, one might aleo sail westward and find lands in that direction." Columbus was in Portugal from 1470 to 1484. He... | |
 | Frederick Charles Danvers - 1894 - 654 Seiten
...reside about the year 1470, and, whilst there, he began to surmise, as stated by his son Ferdinao, " that if the Portuguese sailed so far south, one might...sail westward, and find lands in that direction." At Lisbon Christopher Columbus married Felipa Moniz de Perestrello, daughter of Bertollomeu Perestrello,... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1899 - 500 Seiten
...maps and instruments. ' It was in Portugal,' writes Ferdinand Columbus of his illustrious father, ' that the Admiral began to surmise that if the Portuguese sailed so far south, one might also sail westwards and find land in that direction. ' This surmise was strengthened by the ' Imago Mundi ' of... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - 1906 - 474 Seiten
...maps, and instruments. " It was in Portugal," writes Ferdinand Columbus of his illustrious father, " that the admiral began to surmise that if the Portuguese sailed so far south, one might also sail westwards and find land in that direction." This surmise was strengthened by the " Imago Mundi " of... | |
 | K. D. Madan - 1998 - 192 Seiten
...the African continent. His curiosity led him to believe that, as recorded later by his son Ferdinand, "if the Portuguese sailed so far south, one might...also sail westward and find lands in that direction". As years passed, the curiosity of this grimly determined man grew to become a passion and he was consumed... | |
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Portugal," said Ferdinand Columbus, the son and biographer of the most illustrious navigator that the world has seen, — " it was in Portugal that the admiral began to surmise, that, if the Portuguese sailed so far south, one might also sail westward,... 