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a letter to him from Columbus himself. This place was the 
farthest point touched in the expedition, ‘‘hanc ultimam exist- 
emati continentis oram quam ille [Columbus] attigit, vocavit 
a stirs compelled him, the next day, to set his face to- 
niola. Here then is the key of this mystery, the pa- 
at arm ‘4 jonskid geographical blunders, in later maps. Hvan- 
sore is on the west side of the Isle of Pines, the Cape of Good 
ope is on Cuba to the N.N.E. near Batabano, and a dash of 
green paint, the conventional color for terra incognita in old por- 
tolani, marks a “cut-off” and completes the Gulf of Ganges! 
This simple «rb ane that all beyond was unknown. ree 
days more, had Columbus persevered toward the west, would 
have brought him "ai the end of See and dispelled all his 
grand visions of the Province of Mangi, and the incomparable 
Fiches of the Grand Kahn of Cathay.” Cuba is then here not 
an island, but is merely cut off in the usual way by La Cosa — 
himself who was there with the Admiral, and who laid down 
the track of the whole expedition with marvellous truthfulness. 
‘ari answer to the second objection, as to the American coast 
Ruysch, seven years later (PL 2, No. 3) pret this perfectly, and in his — 
Goat tinental ary tom arked this cut-off more distinctly. He has preserved the “Gulf 
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2 . ao ; ve ses in ae 
es : saa NE 
eereath ge Mayers aR Sixes MEER ge ae a PEE ee eS a ee eee ee eee 
rto Santa, io dele ee = 
a oe ‘ega, Cabolindo 
— exactly with the log book or journal of Columbus as preserved by 
Tt shoul ould, however, be mentioned that Senhor Varnhagen, in his able work on 
Vespueci, printed in Lima, in in 1865, differs fro m the writer, interpreting these to 
the Miesienippi ion the Gulf of Mexico and  Plorida. 
