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tion several times of the abundance of gold. Veragua, 

 as Lochac, was associated in the mind of Columbus 

 with the Golden Chersonese (see the third study, 



PP- 74-75)- 



On the Canerio map a grove of trees is shown in 

 the corner of the gulf, with another slightly farther 

 north (Fig. 15). On the Ruysch map of 1508,'^^ in 

 the same corner of Asia, there are two groves, one 

 "Silva Ebani" and the other "Silva Aloe." There 

 are other silvae in four places farther south on the 

 same map. 



This completes the list of names on the Cantino 

 and Canerio maps which appear to have had their 

 origin in the voyages of Columbus. 



Names from Other Sources 



Some of the names that remain may come from 

 other sources. When it is recalled that Columbus 

 regarded Cuba as the mainland of Asia, it may be 

 worth while to examine the names given to areas 

 w^hich were similarly regarded as Asiatic by one or 

 another map-maker or explorer. There were other 

 such areas in 1500 — first, the land discovered by 

 John Cabot and, second, that discovered by the 

 Corte-Reals in 1500.^^ In order to avoid the ques- 



Footnole 47, continued 



Die Karte des Bartolomeo Colombo iiber die vierte Reise des Admirals, 

 text and facsimile of three maps, reprint from Mitt, des Inst. fUr Oster- 

 reichische Geschichtsforschung, Innsbruck, 1893. 



<8 Nordenskiold, Facsimile-Atlas, PI. 32. 



"See La Cosa for the Cabot land (Fig. 10; enlarged on Fig. 16), 

 Cantino for the Corte-Real land (Fig. 8). 



