Iceland, sighted by Nadodd, 54;
colonised, 55

_Imago Mundi_, influence on Columbus, 11

Isidore of Seville, belief of, 40

Italian, merchants, first, who opened Court of Great Khan to Venice and
Genoa, 90;
age of South Atlantic and African voyages, 107

J

Jacome from Majorca, 161

Japan discovered by Kublai Khan, 99

Jerusalem, loss of, 90

John de Plano Carpini, first papal legate to the Tartars, 90;
gives first genuine account of Tartary, 91;
first real explorer of Christian Europe, 92

John, fourth son of King John I., 136;
succeeds Affonso V., adds a new chapter to discovery, dies, 314

John, the King of Good Memory, transition figure, 133;
personal work and its results, 133-135;
sons of, 136;
plans attack on Ceuta, 148;
speech when he hears of death of his two sons, 152;
dies, 160

Jordanus, 104

K

Karlsefne, Thorfinn, greatest of the Vinland sailors, 60

Keel-Ness (Kjalarness), 58

Kublai Khan, 93-98

L

Labrador, possible discovery of, 56;
reached by Scandinavian migration, 65

Lagos equips and sends out a fleet, 229

La Mina, 315

Lancarote, obtains grant to sail to coast of Guinea, 206;
his voyage, 212-214;
landing at Lagos and sale of slaves captured by, 214;
admiral of fleet sent out from Lagos, 229;
holds a council of his captains, 231;
decides to go on to the Nile, 232

Latini, Brunetto, describes the magnet, 116

Leif, a son of Red Eric, starts for discovery, 56

Leonora Telles, evil genius of Ferdinand and Portugal, 131;
marries King of Portugal, 132;
people rise against, 132

Leonor of Aragon, attempts to be regent, 189;
yields to persuasions of Henry, 190;
dies, 257

Lion, first one brought to Portugal, 247

Lisbon, capture of, 128

M

Machin, Robert, 110

Madagascar, first known to Europe, 102

Madeira, discovered and named by the Portuguese, 165;
nature of island, 166;
visited by Cadamosto, 264

Magellan, 125, 310

Magnet, earliest mention of, 115

Magnus the Good, 68

Mandeville, Sir Henry, 105

_Mappa Mundi_, Hereford, 120

Maps, of fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, 118

Marabout, or Prophet Bird, 230

Markland (Woodland), 57

Massoudy, visited various countries, 19;
discussion of problems, 20;
greatest name of first age of Arabic geo