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"grande" or "grant" (Portugviese form for "grande") river. " Salliuas " is the same 

 word as " Sallinas " in the Cabot map. " C. trenot " is clearly " C. tiennot ; " " terra bella " 

 probably refers to the coast a few leagues (less than seven) east of Tiennot (Natashquan 

 Point), which Cartier described in these words : "Et a la fin desdictes ysles, y a une fort 

 belle terre basse plaine de grawdz arbres & haultz." ' The " goffre " may be a corrupted 

 " Golfo." 



"Area blanc" would probably be area or areia branca, Portuguese for " Blanc Sablon." 

 " Branica " I do not understand unless it be another greatly corrupted repetition ; " brest " 

 is clear and also " chatiaux." On the west coast of Newfoundland are no names, and its 

 outline is very poor. The many islands on the Labrador coast resemble those on the 

 Cabot map. 



E.— 27te Homem Map, 1558. 



We may here look at another Portuguese chart, that of Diego Homem, made in 1558. 

 This map is contained in an atlas in the British Museum, and has been reproduced by 

 Kohl in his " Discovery of Maine," from which work the sketch below was taken. We 

 notice some surprising topographical innovations here. Bay Chaleur and the St. Lawrence 

 meet to the west and communicate with a great north-western sea. To this same sea are 

 several openings on the Labrador coast. As Kohl says,- " He ijuts down a strait in every 

 place where Cartier in his report had said he had looked for one, even if he did not find it." 

 The west coast of Newfoundland is left unrepresented, the land merging into the sea. As 

 to the names. Kohl says,' " The whole draft of the Gulf of St. Lawrence is necessarily 

 taken from Cartier, though our Portuguese author has badly changed and corrupted the 

 names of his French oris-inal." 



Fig. 5.— The Diego Homem Map, 1558. 



The Magdalene group is represented by two islands, " briou," which, of course, should 

 be " Brion," and " ille de sablôes." The latter word, as already pointed out, was used in 

 its French form by Cartier in describing the greater of the Magdalene Islands. There can 



1 Bref, récit, éd. of 1863, f. 7b and 8. 



^Op. cit., p. 379. 



='0p. cit. p. 379. 



