CHAPTER V 



THE PORTUGUESE AND THE SPANIARDS IN THE 

 INDIAN OCEAN 



AUTHORITIES : 



The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea by GOMES 



EANNES DE AZURARA, ed. BEAZLEY and PRESTAGE (Hakluyt 



Society) . 

 The Discoveries of the World, by ANTONIO GALVANO, ed. 



BETHUNE (Hakluyt Society). 

 The First Voyage round the World by Magellan, ed. LORD 



STANLEY OF ALDERLEY (Hakluyt Society) . 

 The Journal of Christopher Columbus, ed. MARKHAM (Hakluyt 



Society) . 

 Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, ed. MAJOR (Hakluyt 



Society). 

 The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, ed. MARKHAM (Hakluyt 



Society) . 

 The Philippine Islands, by ANTONIO DE MORGA, ed. LORD 



STANLEY OF ALDERLEY (Hakluyt Society). 

 FISKE'S Discovery of America. 

 MAJOR'S Henry the Navigator. 

 BEAZLEY'S Henry the Navigator. 

 HUNTER'S History of British India. 

 GUILLEMARD'S Magellan. 



AND now we come to a new chapter in our story ; a chapter 

 in which our heroes will no longer be Italian merchants and 

 missionaries, but Portuguese and Spanish seamen. Let us 

 first notice how the great change came about. 



Ever since the middle thirteenth century the interest of 

 East to West had been increasing. The East was the The call of 

 source of all the luxuries of life. In the East also was the 



great mission field of the Knights of Christ. And, both to and 

 merchant and to missionary, access to the East had been 

 through the open door. Mongol indifferentists dominated 

 Eastern, Northern and Central Asia, and listened to 



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