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At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahaní.

Christopher Columbus

Referring to an island located in what is now the Bahamas.

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Topic

Discovery of America

Author

Christopher Columbus

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Spanish

Time

1492 1490s 15th century

Era

Age of Exploration

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Columbus, Christopher. Journal entry. 12 Oct. 1492.

Current Citation

Columbus, Christopher. The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493, translated by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr. University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

Christopher Columbus

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Topic

Curvature of the earth The earth

Author

Christopher Columbus

Medium

Letter

Language

Spanish

Time

1498 1490s 15th century

Era

Age of Exploration

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Columbus, Christopher. Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage. Oct. 1498.

Current Citation

Columbus, Christopher. "Narrative of the third voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Indies, in which he discovered the mainland, dispatched to the sovereigns from the island of hispanola." The Four Voyages, translated by J. M. Cohen. Penguin Classics, 1992.

And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

Christopher Columbus

Describing the natives of what came to be called Hispaniola.

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Topic

First contact with Native Americans

Author

Christopher Columbus

Medium

Letter

Language

Spanish

Time

1493 1490s 15th century

Era

Age of Exploration

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Columbus, Christopher. Letter to the Sovereigns on the First Voyage. 15 Feb. 1493 - 4 Mar. 1493.

Current Citation

Columbas, Christopher. "Letter to various persons describing the results of his first voyage and written on the return journey." The Four Voyages, translated by J. M. Cohen. Penguin Classics, 1992.

Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... We may rightly call a New World... A continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals other than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

Amerigo Vespucci

On the discovery of America.

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Topic

The new world Discovery of America

Author

Amerigo Vespucci

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

1503 1500s 16th century

Era

Age of Exploration

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Vespucci, Amerigo. Letter to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici. c. Mar. 1503.

Current Citation

Vespucci, Amerigo. "From Mundus Novus (Letter on His Third Voyage to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici, 1503)." Early American Writing, edited by Giles Gunn. Penguin Classics, 1994.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Francis Drake

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Topic

Finishing a task Persistence Perseverance Accomplishment

Author

Francis Drake

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1587 1580s 16th century

Era

Age of Exploration

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Drake, Francis. Dispatch to Francis Walsingham. 17 May 1587, Francis Drake's ship, Iberian coasts between Lisbon and Cape St. Vincent. Dispatch.