INDEX 



145 



First voyage of Columbus, 31. See also 



Voyage of 1492 

 Fischer, Joseph and F. R. von VVieser, 



23, 64, 91, 92, no. III 



Fiske, John, 54. 77. 81. 93. 120, 136 



Flanders fleet, 44 



Floating islands, 40 



Flores, 38 



Florida, 52, 78, 85. 136 



"Florida" on the Cantino map, 91; con- 

 tinental land problem reconsidered, 

 108; Harrisse's analysis of the prob- 

 lem, 92; Harrisse's arguments an- 

 swered, 108; identity, 91; place 

 names compared with those given by 

 Columbus to Cuba, 102; place names 

 compared with those of La Cosa's 

 Cuba, 104; place names considered, 

 115; shape of the land, 108; sum- 

 mary of argument, 141 



Florida, Strait of, 51, 78 



Fortunate Isles, 60 



Fourth voyage of Columbus, 54; Co- 

 lumbus' geographical conceptions 

 during, 60, 66-68 (maps) ; Colurnbus' 

 movements as reflection of his views, 

 71; geographical background, 60; 

 identifications made by Columbus, 

 70; map constructed to show Colum- 

 bus' ideas of eastern Asia during this 

 voyage, 65, opp. 88 (ill.) 



Fox, G. v., 34. 36 



G. do lurcor, 126, 136, 137 



Gaetan, Juan, 51 



Ganges region, 82 



Ganges River, 62, 74, 75, 76 



Gastaldi map of 1562, 90 



Gerini, G. E., 62 



Ghillany, F. W., 92 



Gibraltar, Strait of, 19, 20, 21, 69 



Gion, 76 



Glareanus mappemonde of 1510, 91 



Goats, 120 



Gold, 64, 75. 127. 128 



Golden Chersonese. See Aurea Cher- 



sonesus 

 Gomera, 32, 34. 45 

 Gonzalez de Puebla, Ruy, 129 

 Good Hope, Cape of, 11 

 Gracias a Dios, Cape, 73 

 Grasses, 40 

 Greenland, 132 

 Groves, 128 

 Guajaba Key, 102 

 Guinea. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 18; Columbus 



and, 25, 26. See also Upper Guinea 

 Guinea, Gulf of, 23, 24, 25 

 Gulat, 75 

 Gulf Stream. 51 

 Guyard, Stanislas. See Reinaud, J. T., 



and Stanislas Guyard 



Haiti, 52, 109, 124 

 Halliwell, J. O., 57 

 Hamy map of 1502, 24. 25 



Harrisse, Henry, 54, 56; analysis of the 

 problem of "F"lorida" on the Cantino 

 map, 92; arguments answered in the 

 problem of "Florida" on the Cantino 

 map. 108; "Bibliotheca Americana 

 Vetustissima," 127; "Corte-Real," 

 91, 116, 118, 131; "Decouverte . . . 

 de Terre Neuve," 131, 134; "Dis- 

 covery of North America," 55, 71, 79, 

 80, 81, 90, 93. 94. 104, 105, 117, 118, 

 119. 129. 130, 131. 132. 134; examina- 

 tion of his views about Columbus and 

 the coast of Asia, 79; "John Cabot," 

 129 



Hauslaub globe, 92 



Havilla, 75 



Head winds, 42, 53 



Heawood, Edward, 24 



Helps, Sir Arthur. 54 



Herbermann, C. G., 137 



Hieropolis, 65 



Honduras, 72, 73. 81, 82, 136 



Humboldt, Alexander von, on Colum- 

 bus' knowledge of the length of a 

 degree, 5; "Examen critique," 5, 105 



Iberian Peninsula, part of Ptolemy 

 (1490) map to show latitude of Lis- 

 bon, 15 (ill.). 17 



Iguanas, 121, 122 



India. 32, 61, 80; sailing from Spain to, 

 36. 40 



India extra Gangem, 62, 88, 89 



India intra Gangem, 62 



India of the Ganges, 72, 73. 140 



Indian Ocean, 24, 25, 29, 73, 82 



Indicum Mare, 62 



Insulae Fortunatae. 29 



Irving, Washington, 54 



Isabella, city of, 109 



Isabella, island of, 108,109,121,137,138 



Isabella Insula. 92 



Island of the Seven Cities. 41 



Islands, floating, 40; of the Atlantic, as 

 key points for study, 34 



Italian nautical mile, i, 17. 18, 21, 45 



Jamaica, 76, 81, 87, 103, 104 



Java, 64, 73 



Java Minor, 64 



Jomard, E. F., 60, 84, 92, 105. i3S 



Joseph, Master, 6, 7. 9. 10, 17 



Josephus, 74. 75 



Khan, Great, 31, 119, 124, 129 



Kohl, J. G., 54. 93. 96 



Kretschmer, Konrad, "Entdeckung 



Amerikas," 24, 95. 100, 119. I35; 



" Katalanische Weltkarte," 20, 23 

 Kunstmann, Friedrich, 134 



La Cosa (Juan de) map of 1500, 59. 69, 

 78; Cabot land on, 130 (ill.); place 

 names compared with Cantino map 

 names, 104 



