Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery

by Justin Winsor

MAIOLLO MAP, 1527.

1511. Portuguese at Rio de Janeiro.

Ferdinand Columbus and the western passage.

There is some reason to suppose that as early as 1511 the Portuguese had become in some degree familiar with the coast about Rio de Janeiro, and there is a story of one Juan de Braza settling near this striking bay at this early day. It was during the same year (1511) that Ferdinand Columbus prepared his Colon de Concordia, and in this he maintained the theory of a passage to be found somewhere beyond the point towards the south which the explorers had thus far reached.

DE COSTA'S DRAWING FROM THE LENOX GLOBE.

SCHÖNER'S GLOBE, 1520.