"FLORIDA" ON CANTIXO MAP 133 



with the names on the real Cuba, and transferring 

 them, so far as he used them at all, to the supposed 

 mainland of Asia. The land was given the triangular 

 shape indicated in the "Informacion y testimonio" 

 of Ferdinand Perez de Luna — an eastern coast running 

 many degrees to the north, and a southern coast 

 running, so far as the Cantino map is concerned, to 

 the margin on the west. (This was in conformity 

 with the Behaim-iXTartellus idea of eastern Asia.) 

 Then, as though not quite certain, he put in the pine- 

 covered land of Terra Corte-Real far to the east on 

 the Portuguese side of the Demarcation Line and 

 somewhat less than half the distance across the ocean 

 from Ireland. 



On the eastern and southern coasts of the supposed 

 Asiatic mainland on the Cantino map two names, at 

 least, are found which belong to the Corte-Real 

 voyages. The second name from the north is Caho 

 d. licotir (Fig. 14). Canerio gives the name as "Cabo 

 dellicontir" (Fig. 15). Harrisse suggests^^ that this 

 name is really ''Cabo del encontro," or "the cape of 

 the meeting," that is of the meeting appointed by 

 Miguel Corte-Real for August 20, 1502. The other 

 name, Cabo de boa ventura, is the fourth from the 

 north on the Cantino map. This name is Portuguese 

 in form and not Spanish as are the others. A "C[abo] 

 de boa ventura," as well as an ''Y[sla] de boa ven- 



56 Harrisse, Decouverte . . . de Terre-Neuve, p. 359; idem, Les 

 Corte-Real, p. 90. 



