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Suddenly, at the end of the fifteenth century, the persons of our / story found the picture of the world which they carried in their / minds wonderfully expanded, rather as if it were a closed fist widely / opening. Columbus in 1492 "discovered America": Vasco da Gama, in / 1487, "rounded the Cape of Good Hope."
That is the way in which most of the history books state it for us; / but it is a statement which gives credit to Columbus for a little / more than he actually did, and does not put enough to the credit of / da Gama. For it was not what we call America at all which Columbus / discovered in 1492, but only one of what we now know as the West / Indies, or West Indian Islands: and the mere "rounding" of the Cape / of Good Hope had been done by another before da Gama, but da Gama, / after "rounding" and sailing up the eastern coast of Africa, struck / across to the western coast of India. As a feat of navigation his / voyage was far greater than that of Columbus.