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Rh based on decrees and that they must be respected, and not obscured or diminished. It seems more likely, however, that the protest issued from the representatives of Ferdinand and Isabella who pressed for a delimitation of the Spanish possessions from the Portuguese to avoid future contests.

By the new Bull of May 4, a line was to be drawn from the North to the South Pole, one hundred leagues west and south of any one of the islands known as the Azores and Cape Verd Islands. All lands discovered and to be discovered to