NOTES. 



parece tenia pintadas el Almirante ciertas islas por aquella mar " In 



the manuscript of Las Casas (lib. i. cap. 12), on the other hand, I find, "La 

 carta de marear que embio (Toscanelli al Almirante) yo que esta historia 

 scrivo la tengo en mi poder. Creo que todo su viage sobre esta carta fundo ;" 

 (lib. i. cap. 38) "asi fue que el martes 25 de Setiembre llegase Martin Alonso 

 Pinzon con su caravela Pinta a hablar con Christobal Colon sobre una carta 

 de marear que Christobal Colon le avia embiado .... Eeta carta es la que le 

 embio Paulo Fisico el Florentin, la qual yo tengo en mi poder con otras cosas 

 del Almirante y escrituras de su misma mano que traxeron a mi poder. En 



ella le pinto muchas islas " Are we to assume that the Admiral had 



drawn upon the map of Toscanelli the islands which he expected to find, or 

 does " tenia pintadas" merely mean " the Admiral had a map on which were 

 painted " ? 



( 411 ) p. 264. Navarrete, Documentos, No. 69, in T. iii. der Viages y 

 Descubr. p. 565571 ; Examen crit. T. i. p. 234249 and 252, T. iii. p. 

 158 165 and 224. Respecting the contested spot of the first landing in 

 the West Indies, see T. iii. p. 186222. The map of the world of Juan de 

 la Cosa, which has acquired so much celebrity, and which was discovered by 

 Walckenaer and myself in the year 1832, during the cholera epidemic, and 

 which was drawn six years before the death of Columbus, has thrown new 

 light on these contested questions. 



( 412 ) p. 265. Respecting Columbus's graphical and often poetical descrip- 

 tions of nature, see above, Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 55 57 (Engl. edit. Vol. ii. p. 

 5456). 



( 413 ) p. 266. See the results of my investigations, in the Relation hist, du 

 Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales du nouveau Continent, T. ii. p. 702 ; and 

 in the Examen crit. de 1'Hist de la Geographic, T. i. p. 309. 



( 414 ) p. 266. Biddle, Memoir of Sebastian Cabot, 1831, p. 5261 j 

 Examen crit. T. iv. p. 231. 



( 415 ) p. 266. In a part of Columbus's Journal (Nov. 1, 1492) which has 

 received but little attention, it is said, " I have (in Cuba) opposite and near 

 to me Zayto y Guinsay (Zaitun and Quinsay, Marco Polo, ii. 77) del Gran 

 Can." Navarrete, Viages y Descubrim. de los Espaftoles, T. i. p. 46 ; and 

 above, note 375. The curve towards the south, which Columbus on his 

 second voyage remarked in the most western part of the coast of Cuba, 

 had an important influence, as I have elsewhere observed, on the discovery of 

 South America, and on that of the Delta of the Orinoco and Cape Paria ; see 



crit. T. iv. p. 246250. Anghiera (Epist. ckviii. ed. Amst. 1670, 



