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Mugford. We have already seeu how appropriately the oblong island 

 has been named Trinity Island. Biolongo, Long Eiver, has no special 

 significance. Fonte, or forte, is the next word. This is at or near 

 Hopedale, where " The Pilot " [447] reports that " water is abundant." 

 NoWj/oiite means a plentiful source of water. This, however, is not 

 very distinctive. It would, nevertheless, show Cabot had carefully ex- 

 amined the coast. If forte be the word, it is more suggestive. Literally 

 it means " avast " : thus it would express that caution should be exer- 

 cised on account of dangers to navigation. We find that for several 

 miles in the vicinity of Hoi^edale there is a labyrinth of rocks and islets 

 that " should not be navigated without local knowledge." '■ The Pilot," 

 [445]. This is below Hopedale ; above it [447] we read, " Navigation 

 among them (viz.: rocks, etc.) must be attended with great danger." 

 This is an echo of Cabot's warning — " Be cautious here." 



Ar(jair,ix gorgeous altar, lat. 55° 10', is Cape Strawberry. "The 

 Pilot " [443] says : " The Cape is faced by terrace like cliffs, with deep 

 ravines at the extreme of each." Here we have steps leading up to the 

 altar, the top of the clifi" forming its table. To make it still more like 

 the grand high altars Cabot had seen both in Italy and in England, " The 

 Pilot " tells us the Cape, which is 1,235 feet high, "is the east end of a 

 high range extending inland, and terminating in a consjiicuous cone 

 * * '■' 2,170 feet high." This lofty background forms a fitting 

 reredos for the huge altar, the cone in the centre completing the picture. 

 A man like Cabot could not fail to see and remark this striking resem- 

 blance to a magnificent altar. 



Menistre, a walled countrj^, in latitude 54°, is between Hamilton 

 Inlet and Sandwich Bay, Here we find the Mealy Mountains which 

 " The Pilot " [427] calls "a conspicuous range about 1,500 feet high," 

 and which " extend from the nox'th shore of Sandwich Bay to the south 

 shore of Hamilton Inlet, and show prominently from all directions." 

 What better description could be given than ynenistre, a walled land or 

 country ? 



Cavo delisarte, Cape of smoothed land or surface, about latitude 53°. 

 Here we find on the chart, Cape Bluff, the idiomatic translation of Cavo 

 delisarte. Of it "The Pilot" [395} says : "One of the most prominent 

 headhands on the north-east coast of Labrador." 



S. Luzia is probably Cape St. Michael. 



The next name, Jusquei, is a very significant one. Its latitude is 

 about 52°, that is, at the mouth of the Straits of Belle Isle. It means 

 " the jousting of the waters," or " the meeting in tournament of the 

 waters." We know not whether the memory of Cabot's apt appellation 

 lingered down the centuries, but we have to-day, in that same latitude. 

 Battle Islands, just south of St. Louis Sound. That there is a battle of 

 the waters there we learn from "The Pilot" [350] the sea, at times, 



