Excerpt from The Life of Christopher Columbus The wish of his heart and soul was to go to sea. At that time very few sailors dared to go far out of sight of land but some were brave enough to sail along the coast of Africa, and after a time (about 1470) they reached its south point, which we call - as they did - the Cape of Good Hope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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