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sailors who had already made the voyage to India, he 
set out for that brilliant goal in the Espoir of Honfleur. 
Two months after he had crossed the equator he per- 
ceived signs of land in floating seaweeds and believed he 
was approaching the Cape of Good Hope. A violent 
storm sprang up and drove the ship back into the zone 
of calms, and two months later (presumably after resum- 
ing the southward course) land was sighted and a 
landing made. From this Southern Land de Gonneville 
brought a native back to France about whose subsequent 
fate picturesque tales are told. He is said to have 
married a French lady of noble family and his descend- 
ants more than two centuries later are reported to have 
set sail in search of their remote fatherland. Theoreti- 
cal geographers have located de Gonneville’s Southern 
Land in Australia, Africa, Madagascar, North America 
and South America as it suited their views ; the balance 
of probability seems to point to southern Brazil as the 
real landfall. 
In 1514 two Portuguese ships returned to Lisbon from 
the coast of America. They belonged to the great com- 
mercial house of Haro but their captains are unknown. 
Tht only record of the voyage is a long report written 
by the Lisbon agent of the famous German firm of 
Fugger in Augsburg in whose archives the original MS. 
was recently found. It had been printed at the time 
under the title of “ Copia der Newen Zeytung aus 
Presillgt Landt,” and became widely known. The gist 
of the “ new tidings from Brazil land ” is that the south- 
ern extremity of America was found by Haro’s ships in 
40 0 S. and that to the south of the broad channel washing 
the cape appeared the coast of the great South Land, i 
There was naturally keen rivalry, political, commer- 
