[muawiyah]

Your belief in “tidiness” aside, the Spanish shut down the Portuguese permanent colony in Labrador. Apparantly word to “leave stuff alone” never made it to the Amerias.

[Cronos]

No question of "tidiness" -- your "facts" are just wrong as pointed out.

The Portuguese under Joao Fernandes Lavrador WERE the first to spot Labrador in the 1490s, there was no real Portuguese colonial expansion in North America. Why bother with this cold and desolate land when Portugal had all of Brazil, the trade with India to itself -- both highly lucrative. Even the Spanish never really looked into any place north of Mexico.