"FLORIDA" ON CANTINO MAP 127 



el golfo havo: This is the first name west of C. 

 do fim do abrill. The first place mentioned by Las 

 Casas and Bernaldez, after Columbus started to 

 coast the island of Cuba on the south on his second 

 voyage, is described by Las Casas^*^ as "una gran ba- 

 hia y puerto grande" named, by Columbus, Puerto 

 Grande. In favor of an identification of "el golfo 

 bavo" with the Puerto Grande there is the fact that 

 in each case the name is the first mentioned west of 

 C. do fim do abrill. 



Rio de las palmas: This is another descriptive 

 name such as might have been given almost any- 

 where on the coast of Cuba. It may be a name trans- 

 posed from the northern coast, where Columbus on 

 the first voyage gave the name "Cabo de Palmas" 

 to a headland near the point whence he turned back 

 toward Espaiiola.^^ 



lago del lodro: On the Canerio map only; it seems 

 to belong to the fourth voyage. It is possibly de- 

 rived from "lugar del oro" or "loco del oro." Ver- 

 agua was known, from the voyage of 1502, as a land 

 where an abundance of gold was found ;^^ in the "In- 

 formatione di Bartolomeo Colombo""*^ there is men- 



^^Las Casas, op. cit., Book I, Ch. 94 (Vol. 2, p. 51). 



45 Journal under date of Oct. 30, 1492 (Raccolta, Part I, Vol. i, p. 32; 

 transl. in Markham, op. cit., p. 63). See also Las Casas, op. cit.. Book I, 

 Ch. 44 (Vol. I, p. 322). 



« Letter of Columbus of July 7, 1503 (Raccolta. Part L Vol. 2, p. 198, 

 transl. in R. H. Major, op. cit., p. 197). 



47 (Henry Harrisse:) Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima: A De- 

 scription of Works Relating to America Published Between the Years 

 1492 and 155T. New York, 1866. pp. 471-474. Also in F. R. von Wieser: 



