430 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The Legends of the Cabot Map of 1544 



as transcribed and translated under the supervision of the late Dr. 

 Charles Deane and published in Vol. YI.. Second Series, Proceedings of 

 the Massachusetts Historical Society (1890-91). 



The references in the body of the map to the legends at the sides are 

 placed as follows : — 



No. 1, between the Bermuda Islands and the "West Indies. 



No. 2, north of the Island of Antigua. 



No. 3, opposite to the west coast of Mexico. 



No. 4, opposite to the Strait of Magellan. 



No. 5, at the Molucca Islands. 



No. 6, opposite to the coast of Peru. 



No. 7, at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. 



No. 8, in Hudson Bay. 



No. 9, opposite to Iceland. 



No. 10, in the northern part of Russia. 



No. 11, in the northeastern part of Asia, where the reference is incorrectlj- given 



to Table 2, No. 2. 

 No. 12, in the northern part of Asia. 

 No. 13, in the middle of Africa. 

 N0.514, in Hindostan, without a numerical reference, but it is indicated by the 



picture of a woman surrounded bv flames. 

 No. 15, north of Japan. 

 No. .16, near Sumatra. 



No. 17, on the eastern side of the map, just south of the equator. 

 No. 18, north of Europe and Asia. 



No. 19, in the Indian Ocean, nearly south of Hindostan. 

 No. 20. directly below the preceding reference. 

 No. 21, in the Indian Ocean, northwest from No. 19. 

 No. 22, near Ceylon. 



Note. 



In the translation, words which are in the Spanish version but not in the Latin 

 are printed in italics. The additions of the Latin version are given in the footnotes. 

 Mr. Deane apparently employed two difl'erent persons to copy the inscriptions. The 

 copyist of the Spanish version found his text put upon the map in such a bungling 

 manner, in respect to the separation of syllables and the running together of words 

 and in other ways, that he wrote out the abbreviations and corrected the spelling, 

 in order to render the meaning intelligible. His copy has, therefore, been carefully 

 followed. The Latin version was in a better state, but it contained a great number 

 of abbreviations which could not be easily represented by modern type ; and though 

 these abbreviations were preserved by the Latin copyist, they have been spelled out 

 in printing, to conform to the rule'adopted with regai-d to the Spanish version. 



