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Diogo de Lepe, whicli were made in that Hojeda in 1499, commenced. The rela- 

 same year. I now propose to make a more tively accurate configuration of this sec- 

 detailed study of this precious document tion, the presence of names and the placing 

 and of the maps that followed it. imder the eqiiator of the great indentation 

 A careful examination of the map of that undoubtedly represents the mouth of 

 Juan de la Cosa indicates that the author the Amazonas indicate with almost absolute 







had detailed information regarding the sec- 

 tion of the coast from a point a little to 

 the west of Cape S. Roque to the mouth 

 of the Orinoco, where his own observa- 

 tions, as a member of the expedition of 



certainty that this part of the map was 

 copied from an older map (a prototype in 

 the phrase of Harrisse) based on the ob- 

 servations of one or more of the first navi- 

 gators that had coasted along it. . The 



