Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Portugal” in entry columbus-christopher of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...my's and partly from descriptions of Farther India by Marco Polo, a Venetian traveller who told of Cathay (China) and Zipango (Japan) in the twelfth century.
In 1477, Columbus sailed northwest from Portugal beyond Iceland to lat. 73°, when pack-ice turned him back; and it is believed that he went southward as far as the coast of Guinea.
Unable to fit out a vessel for himself, it is stated that he ...
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