136 CONCEPTIONS OF COLUMBUS 



island of Cuba by the early navigators, together with 

 the characteristics of the various wildcats living in 

 the Arctic, temperate, and mountain regions, would 

 all tend to show that the name "C. delgato" belongs 

 to the Portuguese discoveries in the north. 



Only one other name on the southern coast of the 

 Cantino map seems to have any relation that can 

 now be determined to the Portuguese explorations 

 to the north. The C. do mortinho may be the same 

 as the "Cavo del Marco," on the southern coast of 

 the Oliveriana map,^^ and the ''C. S. Marci" of 

 Johan Ruysch (1508),^^ in the same general position 

 on his Cuba. In any case, its origin is not clear. 



Doubtful Navies, Some Possibly Derived from 



THE VeSPUCIUS VoYAGE OF 1 497 



Of the names on the Cantino map there remain 

 unidentified and mostly unexplainable in meaning 

 the following: *'cornejo," '*C. lurcar," ''G. do lurcor," 

 *'C. arlear," and ''Rio do corno." 



Some of these names may possibly be derived from 

 the much-disputed Vespucius voyage of 1497, to 

 which reference has already been made (pp. 77-79). 

 Varnhagen and Fiske^^ think he made the voyage in 

 1497 around the coast of Honduras, Yucatan, the 

 Gulf of Mexico, and Florida to some point on the 

 eastern coast of the present United States. Yarn- 

 ed See above, footnote 58. 

 " Nordenskiold, Facsimile-Atlas, PI. 32. 



65 See references, note 2 above, and, in addition, Fiske, op. cit.. Vol. 2, 

 pp. 52-60. 



