EventAcross the pillars
The Pilot's Cosmography
A month out, and the pilot has taken to reading at the chart table after the evening watch. His book is an old cosmography, copied and recopied until the coastlines have blurred, yet its words retain an absolute assurance. Behind a certain headland on the coast we are steering for, the book promises a great river, and up that river a walled town of clever people who use words that ring like church Latin. The priest has begun to speak of a lost Christian country in the west. Our interpreter observes that the author heard the Latin from a man who heard it from another man, and that this is how books are made.
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title = seven_cities_norumbega.11.title The Pilot's Cosmography
desc = seven_cities_norumbega.11.desc A month out, and the pilot has taken to reading at the chart table after the evening watch. His book is an old cosmography, copied and recopied until the coastlines have blurred, yet its words retain an absolute assurance. Behind a certain headland on the coast we are steering for, the book promises a great river, and up that river a walled town of clever people who use words that ring like church Latin. The priest has begun to speak of a lost Christian country in the west. Our interpreter observes that the author heard the Latin from a man who heard it from another man, and that this is how books are made.
historical_info = seven_cities_norumbega.11.historical_info Jean Alfonse, the pilot who brought Roberval's colonists to Canada in 1542, wrote in his Cosmographie of entering a great river at Norumbega and finding a town of intelligent people who spoke a language similar to Latin. His account folded into a name Verrazzano had set down on that coast in 1524, and the mapmakers did the rest. Mercator's world map of 1569 shows Norumbega as a turreted city on a broad river, and cartographers copied it faithfully from one another for the better part of a century. However, the city never existed anywhere except in the copying.
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