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Title: Explorers in the New world before and after Columbus and the story of the Jesuit missions of Paraguay
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Mulhall, Marion McMurrough
Subjects: Jesuits
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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his great love of knowledge, it can hardlybe doubted, that he heard of the early voyages of the Irishand Northmen.1 For a long lapse of time all records ofIcelandic navigators and discoverers lay unhonoured andneglected, until they found favour in the eyes of a kindredgenius, who was quite capable of benefiting by the in-formation he received from them. Columbus could hardlyfind anything more suggestive for his wonderful rediscoverythan the following accurate statement of an Icelandicgeographer:— On the west of the great sea of Spain, which somecall Ginumgap, and leaning somewhat towards the north,the first land which occurs is the Good Vinland, so calledby Lief, son of Eric the Eed, who visited the New Worldin the year 1000. Mention was made of this voyage to Thule in Columbussfamous trial and his defender spoke of a map of the worldthat Alonzo Pizon had seen in Eome and on which theNew Continent was distinctly marked, and it is known 1 Wars of the Gaidhil with tlie Gaill, p. lxxx.
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Edrisis Manuscript, Bodleian Library, Oxford. PEEDECESSOES OF COLUMBUS 7 that Columbus had this map with him on his voyages toAmerica (Humboldts Cosmos, vol. ii.). It is also remarkable that the famous Arabian geographer,Abdullah Mohammed Edrisi, who was born in Ceuta in 1099,wrote at the invitation of Eoger II., King of Sicily, a workbearing the title Muzhat al Mushtak i ikhtirak alafak(that is, Amusement of the curious in the exploring ofcountries ), in which the New World is described andcalled Great Ireland. M. Jaubert has made a completetranslation of this work from two Arabic manuscripts, oneof which was in the then Eoyal Library of Paris; the other,which contains maps, was procured from Egypt by M.Asselin, and both are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale.Two other manuscripts of the original work of Edrisi arepreserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (Cod. Graves,No. 3837, and Cod. Pocock, 375). A remarkable silverglobe, perhaps the first ever known, made by Edrisi, bycommand o

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