IN NORTHERN MISTS 



Joao Fernandez, has been more or less forgotten. His memory 

 has, perhaps, only been preserved in the name " Labrador " itself 

 — originally applied to Greenland, but afterwards transferred to 

 the American continent ^ — while all the Portuguese discoveries 

 in the north have been associated in later history with the other 

 seafarer, Caspar Cortereal, who was of noble family and belonged 



Portion of Maggiolo's map of 1527 [Harrisse, 1892]. 

 lines omitted 



Compass- 



to the king's household, and who came from the same island of 

 the Azores, Terceira. 



1 The connection with the latter is evidently brought about by the south 

 coast of the insular Greenland (-Terra Laboratoris) — which we meet with first 

 on the King map (p. 373), and which was given a broad form like that of the 

 Greenland coast on the Oliveriana map (p. 375), but even broader — being trans- 

 ferred westward towards America, to the north of the coast of Cortereal or 

 Newfoundland, as we find it on the anonymous Portuguese chart of about 1520 

 (P' 354) arid on Reinel's map (p. 321). Maggiolo's map (see above) forms a 

 transitional type between these maps and the Oliveriana. Greenland (Labra- 



