“ The Conosçimiento (as noticed above) explicitly derives the island-name from the Genoese commander who perished here. Malocello’s enterprise not only marks the beginning of the oversea expansion of western Europe in exploration, conquest and colonization (after the age of Scandinavian world-roving had passed) ; it is also probably not unconnected with the great Genoese venture of 1291 (in search of a waterway to India, which soon follows) , with which this attempt at Canarian discovery and dominion has been by some unjustifiably identified. ”

“ Le Canarien in P. Margry, Conquête des . . . Canaries, p. 177; M. A. P. d’Avezac in vol. vi., part ii., of L’Univers, pp. 1–41 (Îles africaines de l’océan atlantique) ; C. R. Beazley, Dawn of Modern Geography, iii. ”