IN NORTHERN MISTS 



mists and ice of the unknown north, there to find a cold grave, or 

 was lost in a storm on the homeward voyage across the Atlantic, 

 will never be revealed. 



As he did not return, his brother, Miguel Cortereal, fitted out 

 a new expedition in the hope, on the one hand, of going to help 

 his brother, and, on the other, of making fresh discoveries. On 

 January (?) 15, 1502 (or 1503?), he obtained letters patent from 

 King Manuel (see p. 353). On May 10, according to Damiam 

 de Goes, he sailed from Lisbon with two ships, and nothing more 

 was heard of him. Antonio Galvano, on the other hand, says 

 that he had three ships, and that these arrived in Newfoundland 

 (Terra de Cortereal), but there separated and went into different 

 inlets 



"with the arrangement that they should all meet again on August 20. The 

 two other ships did so, and when they saw that Miguel Cortereal's ship did 

 not come at the appointed time, nor for some time after that, they returned 

 to Portugal, and never since was any more news heard of him, nor did any 

 other memory of him remain; but the country is called to this day the Land 

 of the Cortereals.i 



" The King felt deeply the loss of the two brothers, and, moved by his 

 royal and compassionate feeling, he caused in the year 1503 ~ two ships to be 

 fitted out to go and search for them. But it could never be discovered how 

 either the one or the other [of the brothers] was lost." 



If this account of Galvano's is correct, then the last relief ex- 

 pedition returned without having accomplished its purpose. As 

 to what discoveries it may have made, we hear nothing, nor do 

 we see any trace of them on the maps, unless, indeed, the hint 

 of an extension of Newfoundland to the north on the so-called 

 *' Pilestrina " map of about 151 1 (see p. 377) may be due to this 

 expedition or to the ship that returned from Miguel Cortereal's 

 voyage of 1502. On Pedro Reinel's map (p. 321) there is marked 

 a land answering to Cape Breton, with a coast extending west- 



1 That Miguel Cortereal really reached Newfoundland seems also to result 

 from the legend quoted above from the chart of about 1520, since he would 

 hardly be named on this coast unless there were grounds for supposing that 

 he arrived there; but this again must point to some of the expedition having 

 returned. 



- If Miguel Cortereal set out in 1503, and not in 1502 (cf. p. 353, note i), it 

 must have been in 1504 that the King despatched these fresh ships. 



