"FLORIDA" ON CAXTINO MAP 119 



Canfure: Possibly **city of the Can," or "Can fu." 

 This name occurs in the region where Columbus sent 

 two of his men with a letter to endeavor to find the 

 Great Khan (Can) on the northern coast of Cuba.^^ 

 The Canerio map has the name ''Caninor" (Fig. 15); 

 Waldseemiiller (1507), ''Camnor" (Fig. 12). These 

 names seem to relate to the same incident as above 

 and occur on the same part of the coast. 



Costa alta: The ''high coast," a name most cer- 

 tainly not applicable to any point on the coast of 

 Florida, the Carolinas, Virginia, or the Jersey coast. 

 If, however, we turn to the account by Las Casas of 

 the first voyage of Columbus, we find under October 

 28 the observ^ation :^^ "He says the island is full of 

 very beautiful but not very high mountains and all 

 the rest of the land seemed to him like the island of 



by Gallois (Une nouvelle carte marine du XVP siecle: Le portulan de 

 Nicolas de Canerio, Bull. Soc. de Geogr. de Lyon, Vol. 9, 1890, pp. 97- 

 190, 2 plates, and Konrad Kretschmer: Die Entdeckung Amerikas in ihrer 

 Bedeutung fiir die Geschichte des W^eltbildes, 2 vols, (text and atlas), 

 Berlin, 1892; reference in atlas, PI. 8 (our Fig. 9). 



Although the facsimile of the La Cosa map by Canovas Vallejo and 

 Traynor (see footnote 15) is the official reproduction, the color lithog- 

 raphy in which it is printed is not refined enough to bring out all names 

 clearly. Harrisse's reproduction of the photographic enlargement of 

 Cuba on this map (Discovery of North America, PI. 7; our Fig. 11), 

 which is satisfactory, has therefore here been used. 



32 Letter on the first voyage (Raccolta, Part I, Vol. i, p. 124; trans- 

 lation in Major, op. cit., p. 3); Journal (Raccolta, Part I, Vol. i, pp. 34- 

 36; translation in Markham, op. cit., pp. 66-69). 



33 Las Casas, op. cit.. Book I, Ch. 44 (Vol. i, p. 320). The correspond- 

 ing passage in the Journal reads (Raccolta, Part I, Vol. i, p. 31; transl. 

 in Markham, op. cit., p. 60) : la isla dize qu'es Uena de montafias muy 

 hermosas, aunque no son muy grandes en longura, salvo altas, y toda la 

 otra tierra es alta de la manera de Cecilia. 



