. European history : an outline of its development. ontinent had been reached. It was ten years before this discovery was followed up bya voyage to India, and in the meantime another explorer,de Covilham, going through Egypt and Ethiopia, had crossedfrom the east coast of Africa to India and returned. In1497 Vasco da Gama passed around Africa, sailed up theeast coast to Mozambique, found Arabic-speaking pilots,and crossed to India. After an absence of over two yearshe returned to Lisbon with the goods of the Orient acquiredin a direct voyage. 260. Columbus. — Before Vasco da Gama set out upon
. European history : an outline of its development. ontinent had been reached. It was ten years before this discovery was followed up bya voyage to India, and in the meantime another explorer,de Covilham, going through Egypt and Ethiopia, had crossedfrom the east coast of Africa to India and returned. In1497 Vasco da Gama passed around Africa, sailed up theeast coast to Mozambique, found Arabic-speaking pilots,and crossed to India. After an absence of over two yearshe returned to Lisbon with the goods of the Orient acquiredin a direct voyage. 260. Columbus. — Before Vasco da Gama set out upon PrinceHenry theNavigator,1394-1460. The Capeof GoodHopediscovered. The Portu-guese ,Portugal,185-192. 76 Imvicdiate Results of the Revival [§ 260 Columbusideas ,Civilization,388 ff. this voyage, the greatest discovery of the age had beenmade. Columbus had come to believe, as did the scholarsof his time in common with those of the classical world, thatthe earth is round. He believed it to be much smaller than. Columbus it is and reasoned that by sailing west one could reach Indiawith no very long voyage. He not merely beUeved this, buthe had the courage to risk everything to prove its great difficulty which he had to overcome was that ofpersuading others of its probability, the scholastic clergy whowere the advisers of kings, the kings themselves who must §26l] Cohimbus Discoveries 277 furnish the means for an expedition, and the sailors whomust man it, and whose superstitious terrors were especiallyhard to overcome. The most remarkable thing about Co-lumbus was not his belief that by sailing west he would reachIndia, but it was the courage which led him to dare to trythe voyage and to stick to it until he reached the marks better than any other single event of the timethe age when medieval superstitions were dying out, andmodern knowledge and daring based on knowledge wereborn together. 261. Columbus Discoveries. —
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