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“A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand.”

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus, born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy, was a renowned explorer. He believed that the Earth was round and that by sailing west, he could reach Asia. In 1492, he received funding from the Spanish monarchy and embarked on his voyage. Between 1492 and 1502, he made four voyages to the Americas, discovering the New World and profoundly impacting world history. more

“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 on 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.”

World Made Stars Water Written Land Subjects Moon Prove Authority Research West South East Experiments Eclipse Elevation North Star Land And Water

Author:Christopher Columbus

“I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.”

Should Certain Gone Land Evidence East Routes

Book:Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain

Source: Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain

“A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.”

Taken British Declaration Robbing Vancouver

Author:George Vancouver

“The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.”

Fall Water Natural Sea Land Changed Ocean Lows Consequence Rivers Streams Vancouver

Book:A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: And Round Theworld; in which the Coast of North-west America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed

Source: A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: And Round Theworld; in which the Coast of North-west America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed

“The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.”

Said Islands Dry Soil Indifferent Barren

Book:A New Voyage Round the World

Source: A New Voyage Round the World

“I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.”

Conclusion Pleasant Regions

Book:The voyages of Captain Scott: Retold from

Source: The voyages of Captain Scott: Retold from

“Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.”

Faces Dog Terrible Driving

Author:Robert Falcon Scott

“As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.”