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The Sea Way to India.

By Karl P. Effield.

King Affonso V. of Portugal, during whose reign ({…}) the policy of maritime discoveries had been somewhat in the hands of private individuals, was succeeded by his soon, John II, a man whose distinguishing qualities were great political ability, vigorous satesmanship, and an indominable hatred of the overpowering nobility. Their strength, by fair means or questionable, he ultimately succeeded in crushing.

Here is another attempt † in a notebook dated 1904