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Columbus did not discover America. That honour would go to Norseman Bjarni Herjolfsson, whose storm-driven Viking longship took him briefly to the mainland of North America. Yet it was five centuries before Europeans arrived once again on the American coast. Columbus happened to be the first. Curiously, the phrase "The Indies", was not mentioned in the famous Capitulation, an agreement signed by the king and queen of Spain before Columbus sailed on his epoch-making voyage. It merely mentioned that he was permitted to find islands and a mainland in the said ocean. It said nothing of Columbus's obsessive proven fact that a ship could reach the east by sailing westwards. That was his own personal dream and because of it, instead of discovering a sea route to the Indies, he opened up a whole " new world ".
