Southward was another matter; but even here there was no ambition to discover the limit of the world.

It is an error continually made by the biographers of Columbus that the purpose of Prince Henry's explorations down the coast of Africa was to find a sea road to the West Indies by way of the East.

It was nothing of the kind.
There was no idea in the minds of the Portuguese of the land which Columbus discovered, and which we now know as the West Indies.

Mr.
Vignaud contends that the confusion arose from the very loose way in which the term India was applied in the Middle Ages.

Several Indias were recognised.