[139] Cf. Jurien de la Gravière’s Les marins du XVe et du XVIe siècle, vol. i. chap. 2.
[140] Humboldt, Examen critique, i. 144, 161, 329; ii. 370; Cosmos, ii. 561; Jules Codine’s Mémoire géoqraphique sur la mer des Indes, Paris, 1868.
[141] Irving, app. xiv.
[142] Prince Henry, p. 116 (1868). Cf. Studi biog. e bibliog. della Soc. Geog. Ital., ii. 57.
[143] The author tells, in his preface, the condition of knowledge regarding his subject which he found when he undertook his work, and recounts the service the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon has done since 1779 in discovering and laying before the world important documents.
[144] Gustav de Veer’s Prinz Heinrich der Seefahrer, und seine Zeit, Dantzig, 1864, is a more popular work, and gives lists of authorities. Cf. H. Monin in the Revue de géographie, December, 1878.
[145] There is some question if the school of Sagres had ever an existence; at least it is doubted in the Archivo dos Açores, iv. 18, as quoted by Harrisse, Les Cortereal, p. 40.
[146] Cf. Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., 261; adds 154.
[147] Major (p. xvi) has more or less distrust of Cadamosto’s story as given in the Paese novamente. Cf. the bibliography in Studi biog. e bibliog. della Soc. Geog. Ital., i. 149 (1882); and Carter-Brown, i. 101, 195, 202, 211; also Bibl. Amer. Vet. Add., no. 83.
[148] “Through all which I was present,” said Bartholomew, in a note found by Las Casas.