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fastened to a post of the house" (Hallaron tambien 

 los marineros en casa una cabega de hombre dentro 

 en un cestillo, cubierto con otro cestillo, y colgado de 

 un poste de la casa). This episode seems to be 

 the basis of the name "las cabras," Some sailor in 

 attempting to make a map of the coast of Cuba may 

 have written "cabzas" for "cabezas," omitting the e; 

 the z was then taken by the Cantino chart-maker 

 for an r, in order to make sense, hence ''las cabras." 

 Rio de los largartos: This name seems to be an in- 

 terpolation either from the first voyage of Columbus, 

 at the time he was visiting the island he named 

 Isabella, or from the second voyage while he was 

 coasting the southern shore of Cuba. Apparently, 

 the Spaniards saw their first iguana on the island of 

 Isabella, and it was described by Columbus." The 

 name ''Rio de los largartos" may have been trans- 

 ferred to the island of Cuba and then carried over, 

 along with the other names, from the real Cuba to 

 the mainland in the Cantino map. There is, how- 

 ever, another possibility. Speaking of the second 

 voyage, both Andres Bernaldez and Peter Martyr^^ 

 refer to the Spaniards landing on the southern coast 



3' Journal under date of Oct. 21, 1492 (Raccolta, Part I, Vol. i, p. 27; 

 transl. in Markham, op. cit., p. 54). See also Las Casas, op. cil.. Book L 

 Ch. 43 (Vol. I, pp. 313-314 and 316) and Paesi novamente retrovati & 

 Novo Mondo da Alberico Vesputio Florentino intitulato [1508], repro- 

 duced in facsimile from the McCormick-Hoe copy in the Princeton 

 University Library (Vespucci Reprints, Texts and Studies, VI), Prince- 

 ton, N. J., 1916, p. 105. 



38 Bernaldez, op. cit., Seville edition, Vol. 2, pp. 46-47; MacNutt, 

 op. cit.. Vol. I, pp. 94-95. See also Paesi novamente retrovati, p. 116. 



