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2015-12-25 21:57:56 Post No. 52651663
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2015-12-25 21:57:56
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>North African sources describe what some consider to be visits to the New World by a Mali fleet in 1311.[59] According to these sources, 400 ships from the Mali Empire discovered a land across the ocean to the West after being swept off course by ocean currents. Only one ship returned, and the captain reported the discovery of a western current to Prince Abubakari II; the off-course Mali fleet of 400 ships is said to have conducted both trade and warfare with the peoples of the western lands. It is claimed that Abubakari II abdicated his throne and set off to explore these western lands. In 1324, the Mali king Mansa Musa is said to have told the Arabic historian Al-Umari that "his predecessors had launched two expeditions from West Africa to discover the limits of the Atlantic Ocean."
>mfw Mansa Musa of Portugal actually discovered Brazil
