[Sherman Logan]

I assumed Portugese.

[AdmSmith]

Columbus was Genoese, not Spanish. A shorter mile, the Italian or Geometric Mile of 4060 feet (1.24 km) was in common use in 15th century Italy. If Columbus used the Geometric Mile, his league would be 2.67 nautical miles, which is the Italian League, or Geometric League (GL). There are a number of 15th century documents on metrology that support this league length.

http://columbuslandfall.com/ccnav/llen.shtml

[SunkenCiv]

It was Romanian after all... the translation worked here, said, no specific page exists, but still seemed to indicate that it was one mile; I tried another couple of searches and found all kinds of stuff (including *another* Romanian page) giving the various equivs for the various league lengths. :’)

[gleeaikin]

It is NOT Portuguese. I speak Spanish, and have studied French, Italian and a little Portuguese. It might be Romanian. I tried reading it and it seems to be a variant of a Romance language, and I think it is instructions about using Wikipedia. I don’t know what it has to do with this particular article. For the curious here is a link to sample basic phrases. I can see various similarities to the languages I have studied.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Romanian_phrasebook