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Ch. 2: The Traditional Ophir Land

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IN TRADITIONAL OPHIR LAND
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an approach to reality that is highly remarkable, but it is clearly a happy stretch of guesswork.1
All of the region south of Cape Non was practically un­known to the adventurers of the fifteenth century.2 Their ears were filled with doleful tales of the calms and storms, the
1  " Life of Prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the Navigator, and its Results," R. H. Major, London, 1868.
2  Chief of the charts in the fifteenth century were those of Andrea Bianco, "Atlas," 1436, and " Carta Nautica." Justin Winsor, "Narrative and Critical History of America," Vol. I, p. 55.
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