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beginning a core aspect of the myth of Norumbega. Verrazzano named this place
*Refugio*, "on account of its beauty."[@KirsNor98, 39]
They are "now believed to have been [in] the area around Narragansett Bay,
Rhode Island,"[@KirsNor98, 39] far distant from where Norumbega would
eventually be described. However, due to geographical ambiguity at the time,
Verrazzano's *Refugio* nevertheless became "at the heart of the Norumbega
legend."[@KirsNor98, 39] Five years later, Giovanni's brother Girolamo marked a
"small inlet labelled *oranbega.*"[@KirsNor98, 35] Around fifteen years after
that, Jean Alafonce, sailing up a river we know now to have been the Penobscot,
described a city called *Norombegue*.[@KirsNor98, 40-41] Just as with
Varrazzano's *Refugio*, Alafonce described "clever inhabitants [...] The people
used many words which sound like Latin and worship the sun, and they are fair
people and tall."[@KirsNor98, 41] Over time, these similar stories of civilized
natives and a river combined to form the basis for the myth of
Norumbega.[@KirsNor98, 41]
# Later Developments of the Myth in the Age of Exploration
# How the Myth Found new Popularity in the Late 19th Century