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| | Howgego Encyclopedia of Exploration Hordern House review Robb Australia Review Of Books |
 | | The lengthy bibliography for the conquest of Mexico is under Cortés — obvious enough, but if you're interested in Venezuela, you have to know the name of Diego de Losada, who founded Caracas in 1511. |
| | Columbus confidently identifies the coast of Venezuela as the Earthly Paradise, from his reading of medieval cosmographers, sees a manatee and sourly notes that mermaids aren't as beautiful as promised. |
| | The discovery of Brazil, marvellously described in the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha, may have been elaborately staged by the Portuguese government, already secretly familiar for years with the South American continent. |
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