THE PORTUGUESE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. 463 
enlarged his bounds! He who asa child had still known the 
earth with her old and narrow confines might, before his 
hair grew white, have seen the Atlantic assume a definite form ; 
Africa project like an enormous peninsula into the boundless 
world of waters, and one single ocean bathe all the coasts from 
Canton to the West Indies. 
Yet a few years and the Pacific opens its gates, and all the 
discoveries of Columbus and Vasco seem small when compared 
vith the vast regions which Magellan reveals to man. 
