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and to add some gleanings from the Diaz voyage round the 

 Cape. The two personal names are not to be found on any- 

 other map: in conjunction with the attempt made to associate 

 Behaim's own voyage with the discovery of the Cape, we are 

 justified in assuming that this portion of the globe at least was 

 designed in a spirit of self-glorification. It seems doubtful if 

 Behaim had sailed much further than the Guinea Coast. 



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