44 DISCOVERIES OF 1500. 



attention of the natives, and were remembered 

 and repeated by them on seeing other Europeans, 

 under Jacques Cartier, arrive in 1534 — but Cartier 

 mistakes the object of the Portugueze to have 

 been gold mines, not a passage to India ; and if the 

 Portugueze account be true, he also mistook the ex- 

 clamation of C^, nacla, for the name of the country. 



It has been already stated that, in the course of 

 this voyage, Cortereal discovered many islands, 

 which he found were inhabited, and to which he 

 gave Portugueze names. Ramusio, in his map, 

 lays down the Ilha dos Baccalhaos (Cod Island) 

 almost joining Terra de Cortereal ; the island of 

 Boa Vista ; and another which he names " Monte 

 de Trigo'' (wheat heap or hill); and in the map of 

 Ortelius there is laid down, in lat. 43°, Ilha 

 Redonda (Round Island) ; in lat, 47°, Ilha da area 

 (Sand Island); and in lat. 57", Ilha dos Cysnes 

 (Swan Island); and, finally, in the mouth of Hud- 

 son's Straits, he places a little islet under the name 

 of Ca?Ytmilo — from which it may almost be con- 

 cluded that the Portugueze had been here also, 

 as this name is only a mis-spelling of the Por- 

 tugueze word Caramelo or Icicle. 



These circumstances render it probable that 

 during the enthusiasm excited by the voyages of 

 Gama and of Magalhanes, other voyages were 

 undertaken, and countries described, bv the Portu- 

 gueze, which subsequent events caused to be neg- 

 lected and forgotten. 



