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All lands thereafter discovered in the Eastern Hemisphere were decreed to belong to Portugal; all the Western to Spain. The St. Lazarus Islands were well within Portugal’s rights, but as the use of the log and the variation of the compass were unknown, an error of fifty-two degrees in longitude was made, and to Spain the islands were given on the basis of that error.
Yet with all these losses, so much wealth was brought home that the speculators in spoil made a profit of ninety-two per cent. on their investment. The French had won in large measure revenge and plunder, while Trouin had gained his meed of fame. It was now Portugal’s time for vengeance, and it was visited principally on the worthless governor to whose cowardice the disaster was due.
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