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navigate it. From western Mangi the shore turned 

 south. The country on the west of the Sea of Chin 

 was called Ciamba. Much gold dust was found on 

 the coasts of the Sea of Chin. South and southeast 

 from Ciamba, at a distance of 1500 miles, was Java, 

 reputed to be the largest island in the world. Twelve 

 hundred miles south and southwest of Ciamba was 

 Lochac (or Loach), a part of the mainland. To the 

 south of Lochac were two great islands, named 

 Pentan and Java Minor. Java Minor was so far 

 south that the North Star was not visible. 



Besides the Behaim globe several maps embodying 

 these features were constructed in the time of Co- 

 lumbus: of these the mappemonde of Henricus Mar- 

 tellus Germanus,^^ the already mentioned Bartho- 

 lomew Columbus maps^*^ (Figs. 5-7), and the Wald- 

 seemiiller (1507) map^" may be taken as examples. 

 The Bartholomew Columbus maps attempt, of course, 

 to harmonize the new discoveries with previous knowl- 

 edge; the others either do not contain the new dis- 

 coveries or, like Waldseemiiller, apparentl}^ separate 

 them from Asia. 



15 Of uncertain date, about 1489 according to Ravenstein, op. cit.. 

 pp. 66-67. Reproduced in Nordenskiold, Periplus, p. 123. 



16 See, above, footnote 6. 



1^ Joseph Fischer and F. R. von Wieser: The Oldest Map with the 

 Name America of the Year 1507 and the Carta Marina of the Year 15 16 

 by M. WaldseemuUer (Ilacomilus), text in English and German and 

 facsimile of both maps, Innsbruck, 1903- 



