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CONCEPTIONS OF COLUMBUS 



lago del lodro, 126, 127 



lago luncor, 120 



Land, evidences of, in the west, 38 



Landfall of Columbus, 35, 36 



Land's End, 19, 20, 21 



La Sagra, Ramon de, 105 



las cabras, 120 



Las Casas, Bartolome de, 27, 32, 34, 38, 

 39, 41.43, 44, 45, 53, 103, 104, 112, 

 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127 



Ledesma, Pedro de, 72, 81 



Lelewel, Joachim, 13, 22, 28 



Leme, Antonio, 39 



Lisbon, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 22, 38; latitude, 

 17; latitude on Behaim's globe of 

 1492, 16; latitude on Ptolemy (1490) 

 map of Spain, 15 



Lizards, 122 



Lochac (Loach), 64, 74, 82, 128 



Longitudes, displacements on sixteenth- 

 century maps, 84; geographers' esti- 

 mates in degrees of distance from 

 western Europe to eastern Asia, 89 



Los Idolos Islands, 12,14,22; latitude, 17 



Lower California. 85 



Lowery, Woodbury, 96 



Luksch, J., 92 



Lynx, 134. 13s 



MacNutt, F. A., 114, 121, 124 



Madeira Islands, 34, 39, 40; position 

 as to winds and currents, 34 



Magellan, Ferdinand, 51 



Magnus Sinus, 62, 87 



Maisi, Cape, 99, 102, 103 



Major, R. H., "Select Letters," 11, 61, 

 72, 74, 75, 76, 78, 86, 102, 115, 119, 

 127 



Malacca, Strait of, 73 



Mandeville, Sir John, 27, 57, 70 



Mangi, 29, 62, 63, 64, 70, 73, 74, 82, 83, 

 115. 138 



Manoel, Prince Dom, 132 



Mappemondes, 19; series of (1375-1 500), 

 20 



Maps, two theories reflected on, 139; 

 Spanish and Portuguese compared as 

 to longitudes, 84, 85 



Mar Oceanuz, 118 



Marcel, Gabriel, 118 



Marco Polo, 27, 57, 62, 70, 71, 73, 81 



Marinus of Tyre, 29, 30, 60, 61, 79, 139 



Markham, C. R., "Journal of Chris- 

 topher Columbus," 34, 44, 45, 46, 48, 

 93, 119, 121, 122, 123, 127, 129, 131, 

 134; "Life of Christopher Columbus," 

 35. 36, 55 



Martellus Germanus, Henricus, 64, 70, 

 81, 114. 138 



Martyr, Peter, 114, 121, 122, 124, 140 



Mauro (Fra) map of 1459. 20, 81. 89 



Mediterranean Sea, 18, 19, 20 



Mendocino, Cape, 85 



Mexico, Gulf of, 78, 136 



Mississippi River, 108 



Mogador, 38 

 Morales, Francisco, 48 

 Miiller, Charles, 57 



Xavarrete, M. F. de, 34, 60, 102, 108, 

 112, 115 



Navigation, 33, 38, 41; Columbus' pro- 

 ficiency in, 43, 53; problem of navi- 

 gating the Atlantic in the light of 

 contemporary knowledge, 41 



New World, term as used by Colum- 

 bus, 82; Thacher's idea of Colum- 

 bus' term, 87 



Newfoundland, 85 



Newton, Sir Isaac, 26 



Nicaragua, 73 



Nifia (ship), 46 



Nobbe, C. F. A., 57 



Nomenclature, 102, 104, 115. See also 

 Place names 



Nordenskiold, A. E., 54; "Facsimile 

 Atlas," 15, 16, 21, 23, 24, 59, 60, 65, 

 84, 92, 128, 136; "Periplus," 18, 19, 

 20, 23, 24, 25, 28, 54, 58, 60, 64, 76, 

 84, 90, 91, 105, 114, 138 



Nuevo Mundo, 81 



Oliveriana map, 134, 136 



Olson, J. E., and E. G. Bourne, 55 



Ophir, 75. 76 



Orinoco River, 70 



Ortiz de Retez, Vnigo, 51 



Pacific Ocean, discovery of routes 

 across, 51 



Paesi novamente retrovati, 121 



Palos, 32, 34, 46 



Panama, 56, 85 



Papaga, 131, 132 



Paria, 81 



Parias, 137 



Pennesi, Giuseppe, 33 



Pentan, 64, 73 



Perez de Luna, Fernand, 108, 109, 115, 

 133 



Peschel, Oskar, 35 



Peter Martyr, 114, 121, 122, 124, 140 



Picard, Jean, 26 



Pilots, 46, 47, 72, 86, 108 



Pines, 38 



Pines, Isle of, 99, 103 



Pinta (ship), 46 



Pinzon, M. A., 40, 112 



Pius II (Aeneas Sylvius), 7 



Place names, 103, 106, 115; Cuba and 

 unknown land on Cantino map com- 

 pared as to, 102; La Cosa's Cuba and 

 Cantino northwestern land compared, 

 104 



Polo, Marco, 27, 57, 62, 70, 71, 73, 81 



Ponce de Leon, Juan, 91 



Popinjays, 134 



Porto Rico, 48 



Porto Santo, 39 



