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Page xix
... Quiros and others been rediscovered . The ambition of the young King was the mainspring initiating the great activity in naval exploration that began in the second half of the eighteenth century , was continued in the nineteenth century ...
... Quiros and others been rediscovered . The ambition of the young King was the mainspring initiating the great activity in naval exploration that began in the second half of the eighteenth century , was continued in the nineteenth century ...
Page xxii
... Quiros and Roggeveen , more than the writers had intended , all idea of the ultimate content of the vast unknown spaces of the Pacific Ocean was based on the existence of a great continent , in a temperate climate , nurturing a ...
... Quiros and Roggeveen , more than the writers had intended , all idea of the ultimate content of the vast unknown spaces of the Pacific Ocean was based on the existence of a great continent , in a temperate climate , nurturing a ...
Page xxix
... Quiros's narrative in his Historical Discoveries ( 1770-1 ) , and the similarity of the latitude attributed to Quiros's island and to Wallis's Tahiti outweighed the many topographical discre- pancies between them.2 This identification ...
... Quiros's narrative in his Historical Discoveries ( 1770-1 ) , and the similarity of the latitude attributed to Quiros's island and to Wallis's Tahiti outweighed the many topographical discre- pancies between them.2 This identification ...
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