[2] Miguel invested significant sums of money into these two expeditions, and in return, Gaspar promised him a share of any new lands he claimed.
The expedition apparently reached the location where Gaspar's party had landed, at which point the three ships broke off in different directions to search.
[1] In 1912 and 1928 Edmund B. Delabarre wrote that markings on the Dighton Rock in Massachusetts suggest that Miguel Corte-Real reached New England.
Delabarre stated that the markings were abbreviated Latin, and the message, translated into English, read as follows: I, Miguel Cortereal, 1511.
Samuel Eliot Morison dismissed this evidence in his 1971 book The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages.