PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES 



The representation of the Portuguese discoveries in the north- 

 west evidently varied a good deal even on early maps, and some- 

 times diverged considerably from the Cantino map; Greenland, 

 especially, was given various forms, while Newfoundland was 

 more uniform in the different types of map. This, again, 

 strengthens the supposition that these countries were discovered 

 on various voyages, and not by the same man. 



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North-western portion of the " King " map, an anonymous Italian 

 mappamundi of about 1502. Scandinavia, with Greenland (" Evglove- 

 lant") to the north of it, is the type of Nicolaus Germanus's maps; 

 Newfoundland and the Greenland (" Terra Laboratoris ") discovered 

 by the Portuguese and shown as an island, are taken from a Portu- 

 guese source. Compass-lines omitted 



Thus, on the so-called " King " map — an Italian mappamundi 

 of about 1502, which was probably taken from Portuguese 

 sources — Newfoundland, called Terra Cortereal, lies in about the 

 same place and has the same form as on the Cantino map (its 

 southern point is called "capo raso"), while Greenland, called 

 Terra Laboratoris, lies farther south than on the Cantino map 



or real discoveries on the coast of North America made by unknown expedi- 

 tions (?). In any case this coast has nothing to do with Gaspar Cortereal, and 

 Sir Clements Markham [1893, pp. xlix f.] is evidently wrong in thinking that 

 this discoverer on his last voyage (in 1501) may have sailed along this coast. 



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