Steven observed on my note on Cortez: "Stout-hearted,
mayhap? Also consider that if you sail across the Atlantic, crawl through
the Panamanian hills to a crest spanning the isthmus, you would be facing west
and it would be the Pacific that your eagle eye would fall
on."
You may be right and that's another
point to consider since, in this case, my hypothesis is
invalidated.
We must then go back to Mike Donohue's
original question:
Why couldn't he find any records that matched the
results of a (possible) newspaper-clipping like the ones mentioned by
Shade? Were they changed by Shade and why? Were they simply a product of
his imagination?
Jansy