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December 3, he saw five large almadias, or canoes.*° 

 It may well be that this incident furnished the basis 

 of the name given to the river. 



puta (Punta) Roixa: "The reddish headland." None 

 of the accounts of the voyage of Columbus gives this 

 name to any portion of the coast. Under date of 

 November 25, however, the Journal says^^ that 

 Columbus found rocks on the shore which seemed to 

 contain iron and silver. Southern Cuba does con- 

 tain large deposits of iron. Such an incident would 

 furnish a sufficient basis to some sailor, in recounting 

 his experiences on the voyage, to gi\*e the name 

 'Tunta Roixa" to the corresponding section of the 

 coast. 



Rio de do (don) diego: On the La Cosa map the 

 third name west of the eastern end of Cuba is ''R° 

 de la bega" (Fig. 11). The Cantino map has almost 

 certainly corrupted this name. The correspondence 

 seems all the plainer when we point out that in both 

 cases the name is the third from the eastern end of 

 Cuba. 



C. do fim do ahrill: ''Cape of the end of April." 

 On the first voyage Columbus gave the name "Cabo 

 Alpha et Omega" to the point which he regarded as 

 the end of the mainland eastward and the first of 

 the mainland coming west from Cape St. Vincent in 



*o Journal under that date (Raccolta. Part I, \'ol. i, p. 53; incomplete 

 translation in Markham, op. cit., p. 94); Las Casas, op. cit.. Book I, 

 Ch. 49 (Vol. I, p. 355). 



"Journal (Raccolta, Part I, Vol. i, p. 47; Markham, op. cit., p. 85); 

 Las Casas, op. cil.. Book L Ch. 47 (Vol. i, p. 346). 



