Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Keats's
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.
Keats seems to have mis-
takenly believed that Cortes was the first conquistador to cross the Isthmus of
Panama, according to this poem.
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In fact islands were sighted twice - Pukapuka on 24 January and, probably,
the Carolines on 4 February - but wind and tide prevented Magellan finding an-
chorage and he was obliged to leave these havens astern.
