The Great Land-mass
Talk by G. F. Hudson
In the second of two talks on the Atlantic voyages that culminated in the discovery of America, G. F. Hudson , Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, describes the course of the expeditions from southern Europe in the fifteenth century. These Portuguese and Spanish voyages led first to the settlement of Madeira and the Canaries and then to the discovery of the West Indies and South America; through them the great land-miss, the hidden continent, was revealed. Mr. Hudson atso considers the claim, revived by a speaker at last year's meetings of the British Association, that the Portuguese explorer Dualmo. and not Columbus, was the first man property to * discover America.