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by an Arab acquainted with the remora fishing at Zan- 

 zibar, and this new form supplied Columbus with the 

 Zanzibar word for "turtle," namely, kassa, and the 

 Arabic word for "diver," namely, the Spanish reves or 

 reverso, which was wrongly attached to the "remora." 



4. Bemaldez and Peter Martyr created a non-existing 

 remora story for America out of Odoric's much-revised 

 cormorant story, on the basis of some marginal notes in 

 Columbus's "Itinerario," which itself was based on 

 Odoric's "Itinerario," and referred to Zanzibar and not 

 to America. 



5. There are in America no corroborative stories of 

 the remora fishing, except as derived from Oviedo's 

 hearsay account, which itself is based on the accounts of 

 Bemaldez and Peter Martyr, which, in their turn, are 

 taken from a revised edition of Odoric's cormorant 

 fishing story. 



