l6 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



foundland shape and exhibit familiar names such as Labrador (1502) 

 '^nown ^^*^ Terra Nova (1508): Labrador being named after a 

 Mavrador' or farmer of the Azores^ who was with John 

 Cabot, and being applied sometimes to Greenland, and 

 sometimes to what is now known as Labrador. In maps of 

 the same dates forgotten Portuguese names occur on the 

 coast of Labrador, and familiar Portuguese names on the east 

 coast of Newfoundland ; and amongst the latter Cabo de Frey 

 Luis (Cape Freels), Ylha dos Bocalhas (Baccalieu Island), 

 Cabo de Co9epi9ion, Baia da Comceica (Conception Cape 

 and Bay), Cabo de Sam Francisquo (Cape St. Francis), Cabo 

 da Espera (Cape Spear), and Capo Raso '^ (Cape Race) occupy 

 their present positions. Fogo Island, St. John's, Cape Broyle 

 (Abrolho) ', Ferryland (Farelhao) ^ Aquafort (Aguada ) *, 

 Fermeuse (Fermoso) ^ and the Cape and Bay of Boa Vista, 

 which was corrupted — even as Boa Vista in the Cape Verde 

 Islands was corrupted — by the French into Bonne Viste, and 

 by the English into Bonavista, probably date from the same 

 time although they only appear on later maps, for instance in 

 1534. In a map drawn in 1508, Placentia Bay, on the east 

 part of the south coast of Newfoundland, and Conception Bay 

 and an amalgam of Trinity and Bonavista Bay on the south 

 part of the east coast, are intelligibly drawn ; and the islands 

 of St. Pierre and Miquelon are represented by ' Barbatos In.'. 

 A stranger looking at these maps would surely say, that the 

 whole east coast of Labrador and Newfoundland, and the 

 south coast of Newfoundland, as far west as Placentia Bay, 

 formed one country or sphere of influence, to which Portugal 

 or some anonymous ally of Portugal laid claim ; and that the 

 process of State-aided exploration had attained this definite 

 result early in the sixteenth century. As far as England and 

 Newfoundland were concerned, the period of State-aided 

 exploration pure and simple on these 'coasts lasted from 1497 



1 Joao Fernandes ?. "^ = smooth. ^ = Rock. 



^ = Rocky. ^ = watering-place. ® = beautiful. 



