"FLORIDA" OX CAXTIXO MAP 131 



Turning now to the second possibility, four voy- 

 ages were made by the Portuguese to the northwest 

 in 1500 and following years."'- Of these, three were 

 made early enough for their results to be incorporated 

 in the Cantino map. Caspar Corte-Real made the 

 first voyage in 1500 and returned safely. The next 

 year he sailed again, but, while his companion ship 

 reached home, he himself never returned. In 1502 

 Miguel Corte-Real went to search for his brother 

 with three ships. Arrived on the coast, the ships 

 separated to carry on the search, with the under- 

 standing that they would meet again on August 20. 

 Two of the ships kept this rendezvous, but Miguel 

 Corte-Real was never seen again. The land where 

 the Corte-Reals were lost was named 'Terra de 

 Corte-Real." Alberto Cantino, in his letter^^ to the 

 Duke of Ferrara, October 17, 1501, reported the dis- 

 tance to the land of Corte-Real as 2800 miles. 

 Pasqualigo, on October 18, 1501, reported the dis- 

 tance as 1800 miles to north and west. The latter 

 also reported that the Portuguese believed this land 

 was joined to the Andilie (the Antilles), discovered 

 by the Spaniards, and to the land of Papaga (Brazil), 

 discovered by Cabral, and that it was the mainland. 



On the coast of a peninsula designated ''A ponta 

 d' [Asia],"^^ which resembles, and may represent, 



^- Harrisse, Les Corte-Real; idem: Decouverte . . . de Terre-Neuve, 

 pp. 34-50; ide7n: Discovery of North America, pp. 59-76. 



53 For this and the following document see Harrisse, Les Corte-Real. 

 pp. 204-211; also Markham, op. cit., pp. 232-236. 



54 The bracketed word is missing because it was near the border of 

 the map, which was trimmed off. There is no doubt as to the meaning 

 Asia, however, because of the inscription at the side of the peninsula. 



