Ep 161: Columbus, Part 3 — Finding the Garden of Eden

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Harry and Rafe continue the story of Columbus and his travels to the New World.
Columbus returns to the New World with 17 ships and 1,200 and in late 1493 and finds that the colony he established is completely wiped out. Further attempts to establish a foothold in this land aremet with all sorts of problems and also fail to result in gold or spices or anything else of note; and beyond that, additional exploration of the neighboring islands fails to reveal Japan or China or anything that was supposed to be there based on the knowledge of the time.
In the meantime, the English are finding a large coastline high in the western north Atlantic (which will turn out to be the eastern portions of modern day Canada) and the Portuguese are progressing to establish a reproducible route around the southern tip of Africa.
So, after things go south in the new colony, Columbus gets called back to Spain to report on things and in 1498 starts a third voyage, this time further south, starting in the eastern Atlantic at the Cape Verde island. Upon arriving in the new world at this latitude closer to the equator, the third voyage seems to have arrived at the very start of history itself...
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