"FLORIDA" ON CANTINO MAP 109 



Don Christopher Columbus . . . required me, Fer- 

 nand Perez de Luna, one of the PubHc Notaries of the 

 City of Isabella, 1^ on the part of their Highnesses: that 

 inasmuch as he had left the said City of Isabella with 

 three caravels to come and discover the continental land 

 of the Indies, although he had already discovered part of 

 it on the other voyage which he had first made here the 

 past year of the Lord 1493, and had not been able to 

 learn the truth in regard to it: because although he 

 travelled a long distance beside it, he had not found 

 persons on the seacoast who were able to give a trust- 

 worthy account of it, because they were all naked people 

 who did not possess property of their own nor trade, nor 

 go outside their houses, nor did others come to them, ac- 

 cording to what he learned from them: and on this ac- 

 count he did not declare affirmatively that it was the 

 continental land, except that he pronounced it doubtful, 

 and had named it La Juana in memory of the Prince 

 Don Juan, our Lord: and now he left the said city of 

 Isabella the 24th day of the month of April and came to 

 seek the land of the said Juana nearest to the island of 

 Isabella,^^ which is shaped like a triangle extending from 

 east to west, and the point is the eastern part, twenty- 

 two leagues from Isabella ... (la cual es fecha como 

 un giron que va de Oriente a Occidente, y la punta esta 

 de la parte del Oriente propinca a la Isabela veinte e dos 

 leguas). 



concernientes a la persona, viages y descubrimientos del Almirante D. 

 Cristobal Colon, IVIadrid, 1825, forming Vols, i and 2 of his "Coleccion 

 de los viages y descubrimientos que hicieron por mar los Espafioles 

 desde fines del siglo XV," 5 vols., Madrid, 1825-37; reference in Vol. 2, 

 Document 76 on pp. 143-149). 



18 On the northern coast of the island of Haiti. — G. E. N. 



19 The fourth island discovered by Columbus on his first vo^'^age, one 

 of the Bahamas. — G. E. N. 



