Talk:Estêvão Gomes

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Direction
The lede states: "In 1524 he explored present-day Nova Scotia sailing South along the Maine coast." This contradicts the article in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography cited herein as a main source, to wit: "The theory generally accepted by historians (Harrisse, Biggar, Ganong, Hoffman, etc.) that Gomes made his voyage north-south, is based on an erroneous statement by Antonio Herrera, and evidence is overwhelmingly against it. (For a discussion of this problem, see Vigneras, 196–97). It is most likely that the stop-over at Santiago de Cuba took place on the way to America and not on the return trip, and that Gomes made his voyage south-north, as Verrazzano had done a few months before." What's up? Mannanan51 (talk) 03:52, 10 January 2018 (UTC)