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written — thus, Joao, Joha, is Joam or Johan ; caiDitao is capitano, and 

 Lisboa is Lisbon. In like manner, the name of the poet Camoens is writ- 

 ten Cainoes, and Don Sebastian is Dom Sebastiao. 



In my second paper (p. 6) I said that the name " Bonavista does not 

 *' appear on any map until Gaspar Viegas's. in 1534; that, is for thirty - 

 " seven years after Cabot's discovery." For this Judge Prowse takes me 

 to task. He says, "The MajoUo map (A. D. 1527) contains Bonavista ;" *' 

 and again, "Di-. S. E. Dawson is quite astray in his statement that Bona- 

 " vista does not appear on any earlier map than 153-1. It appears on pro- 

 " bably the most important of the earlier charts, the Majollo majD." '^ 

 I would refer Judge Prowse to his own "History" (at page 31), where, 

 in the chronological summary at the head of Chapter III., is the entry, 

 under date A. D. 1534, " Gas^mr Viegas's map shows Bonavista /or the first 

 " time on our coast.'' 



Bishop Howle}^ is equally jjrecise. He says, in the Magazine of Amer- 

 ican History : " We have as early as 1527, on Majollo's map, the beautiful 

 " name Buonavista, which is found on all the earliest mups, and survives 

 " to-day in Newfoundland as the bay, the cape and the settlement of Bona- 

 " vista ; " " and again, in his printed lecture (p. 35), he says the name is 

 " on all the earlier maps." I am sure the bishop thinks so, for in his 

 paper on Jacques Cartier's voyages'^" he gives a tracing (see fig. 10) of 



the Majollo map (p. 17(i), on which C. Bona- 

 vista api^ears. In my paper, at page 76 of 

 the same volume, I gave a tracing of the same 

 map. My tracing was from Kretschmer, and 

 the name Bonavista is not on it because it is 

 not in Kretschmer. Other facsimile copies of 

 this map may he found in Winsor, "Narrative 

 and Critical History," vol. iv., p. 38, and in 

 'Anna Harrisse, " Discovery of America," p. 216. 

 Bonavista is not found on any of them. A 

 close inspection of fig. 11 will show the words 

 " ben posta," and it will be found also thus on 

 Kretschmer's, Winsor's and Harrisse's fac- 

 similes, but C. Bonavista will not be found. 

 We may now be informed that " ben posta " 

 means Bonavista, and that it is " absurd," 

 Fig. 10. "ridiculous," "senseless " or anything else of 



From vol. xii., Tran.s. R. S. C, a similar objectionable nature to think ditfer- 

 Sec. II., p. 176. , T , . , ... 



ently. 1 did not recognize it, inasmuch as 



*' ben posta" made sufficient sense ; and evidently Judge Prowse did not, 



or he would not have made such a statement in his "History." It is 



always better to put the names as they are written, and explain why they 



should be altered. Nor can the name Bonavista be ascribed to Cortereal, 



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Bonavista 

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