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- The In 4 March 1493 (fo. 65v23) entry of Las Casas's abstract to Colombus's diario de a bordo (National Library, Madrid). See e.g., Oliver C. Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr, Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492–1493, (Oklahoma University Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1989)
- Curiously, Las Casas first wrote peña, rock or cliff. Why? Reading this text closely, and visualising the context in which Colombus probably wrote, one can imagine many things were written that frightful night, including conjectures of his location and what the sailors might have seen. Apparently Las Casas preserved only the most important highlights
- Henige , David . 1991 . In Search of Colombus. The Source for the First Voyage 122 Tucson : The University of Arizona Press . (p. n. 76
- Narratio de itinere navali peregrinorum hierosolymam tendentium et silviam capientum, a.d. 1189. Vol. 81 , 616 The town has been around for a long time. A twelfth-century notice reads: ‘Nota iuxta Ulixibonam ad tria nostra miliaria est castrum nomine Sintricum, ubi concipiunt eque de vento, et sunt fetus velocissimi sed non ultra octo annos viventes’. Charles Wendell David, ed. (1939), Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol., no. 5. p
- 1962 . Die italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographi und Nautik…mit einer Kartenheilage Hildesheim : Olms . For sailing books see, inter alia, Konrad Kretschmer,(E.S. Mittler und Sohn, Berlin, 1909; reprinted Georg
- Kretschmer . 279 op.cit., p
- 1964 . Le Language des Géographes, Terms. Signes. Couleurs. Des Cartes Anciennes. 1500–1800 179 François de Dainville (Éditions A. et J. Picard et Cie., Paris, p
- Latham , R. E. 1965 . Revised Medieval Latin Word-list from British and Irish Sources London : Oxford University Press . (, 1965)
- Mariners' notices occur now and again in the charts, like the one located at sea just south-west of the Pelponnesos in Becharius, 1403: pelegro ben tempo ad.
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- Baugh , Daniel A. 1965 . British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole 184 Princeton (p. I am grateful to J.D. Alsop for this reference
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- We have come to this conclusion after examining testimonial documents for the handful of women who were licensed by Canterbury to practise surgery and/or physick in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
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- Neumayer visited Australia earlier in the 1850s when he spent two years on the Victorian gold fields and briefly worked as second mate on a coastal steamer before returning to Germany in 1854 to continue his studies.
- Howard , E. C.O. “ The Flag Staff Hill', The ” . In Victorian Historical Magazine Vol. VI , 46 No. 1, September 1918, p. and the Reverend C. Stuart Ross, Our observatory; the story of its establishment', VHM, Vol. 6, No. 3, March 1918, p. 138
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- Jones , Ian and Jones , Joyce . 1992 . Oceanography in the Days of Sail 211 (Hale & Ironmonger, Sydney, p
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- The research also produced an unpublished table showing the exact position at sea on each day of the voyage for 300 named sailing vessels travelling from Europe to Melbourne between 1858 to 1863; this is now held by the Victorian PRO as VPRS 4680.
- 1871 . Orographische Karte Victoria Neumayer's time in Australia resulted in at least five books and two published maps including an
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- Jhelum The is not an East Indiaman
- The Governor completed his dispatch (which survives in the archive office, Port Stanley) with the following interesting observation which gives some indication of the importance of the Falklands as a haven for Cape Horn traffic: ‘…Thus my Lord, within the space of one month, the harbour has afforded rescue to eight vessels, and it would be an interesting matter of record to detail to your Lordship at some future opportunity, the numerous occasions when this Harbour of Refuge has been of the greatest utility to the Imperial Merchant Marine’.