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Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893

Eccentricity of the Sextant by Frederic Furbish, 1893, Page 19

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pushing to the South they sailed along the coast of Africa and as the result of seventy years exploration we find them in 1487 at the Cape of Good Hope. Although they were a daring, adventurous race they would not have tried to do what they did had it not been for the invention of the mariners'  compass a few years before.
But they did not dare to sail out into the open sea in search of new countries, they were afraid to get out of sight of land and coasted along close to the shore. The Atlantic ocean was an unknown sea: they knew not it's extent. On their maps it was filled with devils and dragons and monsters of every conceivable kind. Besides, the earth was flat and away off there somewhere they were liable to go down into a fathomless abyss. They had no way of determining latitude and longitude but depended

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12 pushing to the South they sailed along the coast of Africa and as the result of seventy years exploration we find them in 1487 at the Cape of Good Hope. Although they were a daring, adventurous race they would not have tried to do what they did had it not been for the invention of the mariners' compass a few years before. But they did not dare to sail out into the open sea in search of new countries, they were afraid to get out of sight of land and coasted along close to the shore. The Atlantic ocean was an unknown sea: they knew not it's extent. On their maps it was filled with devils and dragons and monsters of every conceivable kind. Besides, the earth was flat and away off there somewhere they were liable to go down into a fathomless abyss. They had no way of determining latitude and longitude but depended