VOYAOES OP TUB (:'AB(3T,S IN 1497 AND 14!)8. 83 



"Cap Enfumé" — Smoky cape. The appropriateness of the name is still manifest to the 

 passing traveller, for the steep cliffs seem ever shrouded in a rising, smoke-like mist. Upon 



the other the gulf is shown, and the island, 

 which has been taken for Prince Edward, 

 is called isle Dorean, a Portuguese corrup- 

 tion of d'arènes, clearly identifying it with 

 the sand heaps of the Magdalens. Michael 

 Lok's map, 1582 (see ^w.s/), in Hakhiyt's 

 " Divers Voyages," though very incorrect 

 in many respects, is instructive,because it is 

 the only map, excepting that of 1544, which 



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mentions John Uabot. Lipon tlie coast ot 

 Cape Breton is marked J. Cabot, 1497; and in the ocean near the eastern cape called 

 C. Breton, is the island of St. John. The same position for the island is shown on the 

 map {see post) in Hakkiyt's " Principal Navigations," dated 1599. On the Molyneux map 

 of 1592 it is a little further west, and more off the east coast of Nova Scotia, although 

 several small unnamed islands appear in the gulf. 



Thus we have come down to the year 1600, when Pontgravé, Lescarbot and, above all, 

 C/hamplain are about to appear on our coasts, and save on one map, that of 1544, the island 

 of St. John is still on the outside of Cape Breton. Prince Edward island has not yet been 

 born upon the maps. With Champlain comes a new era. His voyages and writings, and 

 his ever ready pencil, throw a flood of light over the obscurities of our geography. In the 

 voyage of 1603 he embodies a description, by the Sieur Prevert of St. Malo, of the Acadian 

 coast of the gulf, and mention is made of an island of St. John, undoubtedly our Prince 

 Edward, for he says it is 30 to 35 leagues in length and about 6 leagues from the coast. 

 Mention is also made of the island of Cape Breton, under the name of island of St. Law- 

 rence ; but, on his two first maps, what is now known as Prince Edward island does not 

 appear. On the map with the Voyages of 1613 a very small island appears, marked as I. 

 St. Jean, in tlie position of its northwestern point, and on the Acadian coast is a legend 

 stating that the author had not examined the coast. Upon the map of 1632 Prince Edward 

 island appears first in its proper place and in its full proportions, and in the volume of that 

 date he makes a fall mention of it. 



From these considerations the following conclusions necessarily flow : 



1. That the island called St. John on the map of 1544 is not that now known as Prince 

 Edward island, but is the great Magdalen island, which lies in the course of vessels passing- 

 through the strait between Cape Breton and Newfoundland. 



2. That the island of St. John of Cabot is Scatari island, marking the landfall at Cape 

 Breton, the easternmost point of the island called after it, and that that cape is the natural 

 landfall of a vessel missing Cape Race ami pursuing a westerly course. 



VIII. The "Cabot" Map of 1544. 



In the previous part of this paper it has been shown that John Cabot made maps of his 

 first voyage which were sent to Spain and were embodied in the map of Juan de la Cosa. 



