“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.”

—  Cristoforo Colombo

3 August 1492 diary entry http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html <br class="br">Journal of the First Voyage

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