intense, and the habita-tions few. And these things he witnessed in a certain island at which hearrived by Sea. He tells me also that there are (wild ?) men there, andalso certain very great rams that have very coarse and stiff wool just likethe bristles of our pigs.+ In addition to these five I… … * The great Magellanic cloud ? In the account of Vincent Yanez Pinzons Voyageto the S.W. in 1499 as given in Ramusio (III. 15) after Pietro Martire dAnghieria,it is said: — Taking the astrolabe in hand, and ascertaining the Antarctic Pole,they did not see any star like our Pole Star ; but they…
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