Some food we had and some fresh water that / A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, / Out of his charity,—who being then appointed / Master of this design,—did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, / Which since have steaded much:[…]

Had I access to large databases of scanned-in newspapers from the Philippines, or Africa, or India, etc., we would expect to see a good percentage of antedatings of the current earliest instances.

The software is checked very carefully in a bottom-up fashion. First, each new line of code is checked, then sections of code or modules with special functions are verified.

Tea may well be Asia's drink but coffee is catching up fast--even in an area renowned for its tea cultivation, such as central Taiwan's Kukeng Township. In Yunlin County's Kukeng--a vertiginous mountain village of 35,000 inhabitants--the main crop is oolong tea.