IN NORTHERN MISTS 



On Newfoundland, called " Bacalnaos," is written : 

 "To this land came first Caspar Corte Regalis, a Portuguese, and he car- 

 ried away from thence wild men and white bears. There is great abundance 

 of animals, birds, and fish. In the following year he suffered shipwreck there, 

 and did not return, and his brother, Micaele, met with the same fate in the 

 next year." 



In addition to this may also be mentioned the various maps 

 of Portuguese origin of 1502 or soon after, especially the Italian 

 mappamundi, the so-called " King" map of about 1502 (p. 373), 





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Portion of an anonymous Portuguese chart of about 1520, 

 preserved at Munich. The network of compass-lines omitted 



which must be a copy of a Portuguese map, where Newfoundland 

 is called Terra Cortereal. 



Besides these documents contemporary with the voyages, or 

 of the years immediately succeeding, there are also several much 

 later notices of them in Gomara (1552), Ramusio (1556), An- 

 tonio Galvano (1563), and Damiam de Goes (1566), but as these 

 were written so long after, we will leave them on one side for 

 the present. 



When we endeavor to form an opinion as to the 

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