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Excerpt from The Diplomatic History of America: Its First Chapter, 1452 1493 1494 If such had a tually been the tenor of the Treaty of and considering the vague idea which people then had of the geography of the adjacent seas, and the countries of the Indians, the claims of Portugal might perhaps have exhibited a Show of right. But such was not the case. This agreement, ac cording to the authentic text, which we borrow from a manuscript of the close of the fifteenth century, grants in that respect to Portugal only the sovereignty of the Oceanic islands then possessed by that kingdom, together with the sove reignty of the islands which the Portu guese might discover and acquire within the limits of the said possessions emos ditos termos. 5 In other words, this prospe tive sovereignty was to be exer cised only in the vicinity of the Azores. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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