"FLORIDx^" OX CANTIXO MAP 115 



coast was the southern coast of Mangi; and westward 

 the coast should, theoretically, turn south; the land 

 to the west was Ciamba. The southward turn of the 

 Cuban coast was taken in the summer of 1494 as a 

 proof that Cuba was part of the Asiatic mainland. ^^ 

 The fourth voyage of Columbus was conducted on 

 the same theory. 



The Place Names Considered 



In turning to consider the names on the continental 

 land, we are met with a most curious error on the 

 part of Harrisse. When he compares the names on 

 the Cantino chart with the nomenclature of Colum- 

 bus (pp. 103-104) he starts, in the case of the latter, 

 with the name at the northern end of the eastern 

 coast and follows the names in order south, and then 

 west along the southern coast ;-^ when, however, he 

 takes up the Cantino chart, he starts with the name 

 at the western end of the southern coast and goes 

 east and then north — in the reverse order to what he 

 did in the first instance. As a result he finds there 



28 Letter of Columbus on the third voyage (Raccolta, Part I, Vol. 2, 

 pp. 26-40, reference on p. 27; translation in Major, op. cit., pp. 108-151, 

 reference on p. no); testimony of Fernand Perez de Luna (Navarrete. 

 op. cit., Vol. 2, Document 76 on pp. 143-149, reference on p. 144; trans- 

 lation in Thacher, op. cit., Vol. 2, pp. 327-333, reference on p. 329); 

 Fiske, op. cit., Vol. i, pp. 476-477; Stevens, Historical and Geographical 

 Notes, p. 12. 



29 Strictly, Harrisse lists these names in the chronological order of 

 discovery; except for the first four names (exclusive of Pefia de los 

 Enamorados; see, above, footnote 9), given on the first voyage, this 

 coincides with the topographical order here indicated. 



