Amu. 29, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



Ribeiro appear to be more to the west in 



the neighborhood of the river Parnahyba. 

 P.". dos Prazeres. — (Point of Pleasures.) 

 Tierra da Pescaria. — (Fishing grounds.) 

 C. do Palmar. — (Cape of the Palm 



Groves. ) 

 jB. do Pracell.— CRiver of the Eeef.) 



Rio Aearacu ( ?) 



B. da Cruz. — (River of the Cross.) This 

 name appears to be preserved to the present 

 day for one of the rivers discharging into 

 the bay of Camoeim. It is probably the 

 'R. das 3 bras' of the Desceliers map, al- 

 though this name comes before the 'R. do 

 praeell. ' 



Tierra dos Fumos. — (Land of Smoke.) 



C. da Loest.— {East (?) Cape.) 

 Tierra de S. Vte. — (S. Vincent's Land.) 



B. Grande. — Rio Parnahyba. 



C. Daviso. — (Advise Cape.) 



B. da Coroa.— {Bay of the Sandbank.) 

 Bahia de Tutoya (?). 



Costa Brava. — (Wild Coast.) 'Coste 

 blanche ' on the Desceliers map. Costa dos 

 Lengoes. 



P. das Correntes. — (Point of the Cur- 

 rents.) Ponta Mangaes Verdes. 



B. Banohom. — (Rio de Anno Bom^=: 

 New Tear's River.) The Desceliers map 

 gives 'R. de vobom'; Chaves and other 

 Spanish maps, 'R. de Naubom.' 



B. do Meo.— (Middle River.) 



B. dos Beis. — (River of the Kings.) 



B. do Joao de Lis?.. — (John of Lisbon's 

 River.) Rio Piria (?), or perhaps the 

 Rio Monim. 



G. de Todos os Sanctos. — (All Saints' 

 Gulf.) Bahia de Sao Jose, southern part 

 of the Gulf of Maranhao. 



0. Maranham. — Almost all of the old 

 maps employ the name in this manner 

 with the article o or simply without any 

 qualifying term.* 



* This manner of using the name is very sug- 

 gestive of a topographical term. The Portuguese 

 language has in its marine topographical termi- 



Abatimirim. — This and the four follow- 

 ing names come in the Desceliers map, but 

 not in that of Diogo Homen. 



Tapicoram. — Itapicuru (river). 



Abiunham. — This name also appears in 

 the map of Bartholomeu Velho where it 

 seems to be applied to the river Parnahyba. 



Camicam. — The other Diogo Homen map 

 gives 'Acencam' (Ascension). 



Cabai.—On an affluent of a river without 

 name that represents the Grajanu. This 

 affluent represents very well the river Pin- 

 dare, and the name 'Pinare' appears in the 

 Caspar Viegas map of 1534 and in the 

 anonymous map of the Riccardiana 

 Library. 



Baia. — (Bay.) On the northern margin 

 of the Gulf of Maranhao. On the Diogo 

 Homen map of 1568 the name is 'b. grelo' 

 or 'b. grela.' In the same position Vaz 

 Dourado has 'Almadias.' It is at present 

 known as the Bay of Itacolumy. 



Tierra dos Fumos. — (Land of Smokes.) 



Costa Aparcellada. — (Coast full of 

 reefs.) 



B. de S. Miguel.— 'R. de S. Paul' on the 

 Desceliers map. Rio Turyassu. 



B. de Diogo Letie.— Bay of Turyassu. It 

 is probable that the name is that of the 

 commander of the exploring expedition. 



B. de S. Palos.—'R. S. Marcial' on the 

 Desceliers map. Rio Maraeassume. 



B. das Baixas.— {'Riyer of the Shoals.) 

 Rio Gurupy. 



Costa Apracellada. — The other map of 

 Diogo Homen of 1558 has here 'p^ da costa 

 suja' (Point of the Dirty Coast), which 

 comes from the Viegas map of 1534 and is 

 reproduced in many of the old maps. 



nology the term 'o marachao' (an artificial or 

 natural barrier of sand or gravel) which would 

 be very applicable to this section of the coast and 

 which might readily be transformed into ' o 

 maranhao.' In fact the dictionary of Moraes 

 cites an old author who gives (by error, says the 

 lexicographer) ' maranhoes ' for ' marachoes.' 



