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coast given by Columbus, as reported by himself and 

 his contemporary historians,^" a sufficient number of 

 the names can be identified to establish a vital con- 

 nection between the Cantino mainland and the explo- 

 rations of Columbus on the first and second voyages. 

 The method to be followed will be to take the names 

 on the Cantino map^^ (Fig. 14) and search for their 

 equivalents. The starting point will be the first name 

 at the north on the eastern coast and thence around 

 to the last name on the southern coast at the west. 



Names Derived from the Voyages of 

 Columbus 



(a) eastern COAST 



Costa del mar vqiano: On the northern side of the 

 island of Cuba La Cosa names the water *'Mar 

 Oceanuz." It is not a great change to name the 

 coast facing this sea the Costa del Mar Vgiano. 



30 See, above, footnotes 5-8. 



31 On Stevenson's photograph of the Cantino map (see footnote i, 

 above) the names are hard to read because, on the photograph, the color- 

 ing of the land often obscures the lettering. For this reason the names as 

 they appear on the hand-traced facsimile in Harrisse's "Les Corte-Real" 

 (see footnote i) , reproduced in our Fig. 14, are used in the present analysis. 



On the other hand, on Stevenson's excellent heliotype facsimile of the 

 Canerio map on the scale of the original the names are easily legible, and 

 this reproduction has, therefore, been used, in preference to the facsimile 

 of a part by Harrisse (Discovery of North America, PI. 14; however, 

 used, for our Fig. 15 for technical reasons) and to the much-reduced 

 facsimile of the whole by Gabriel Marcel (Reproductions de cartes et 

 de globes relatifs a la decouverte de I'Amerique du XVP au XVIIP 

 siecle, text and atlas, Paris, 1893; reference in atlas. Pis. 2 and 3). Inter- 

 pretations (not facsimiles) of the names are available on the reproductions 



