[118] Comptes Rendus, XV., p. 1047.
[119] Repertorium ueber die —— auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte erscheinenen Aufsätze, u. s. w. Berlin, 1852.
[120] Bacalaos, the Spanish word for codfish.
[121] See A. v. Humboldt’s Introduction to Dr. T. W. Ghillany’s Geschichte des Seefahrers Ritter Martin Behaim, s. 2-5, in which work these two maps are given.
[122] Many of the names on this map are also on the land called Terra de Cuba, north-west of the island Isabella, Cuba proper, on the globe of Johann Schoner, Nuremburg, 1520. A copy of a portion of the globe is given by Ghillany in the work just mentioned. For an inspection of the original maps of Ptolemy of 1508 and 1513, I am indebted to the kindness of Peter Force, of Washington.
[123] Otros conocieron ser tierra firme; y de este parecer fue siempre Anton de Alaminos, Piloto, que fue con Juan Ponce. Barcia, Introduccion al Ensayo Chronologico.
[124] Herrera, Dec. I., Lib. I., cap. iii., p. 91.
[125] For a description of this and other maps of America during the sixteenth century, see Dr. Ghillany, ubi suprà, p. 58, Anmerk. 17.
[126] See G. R. Fairbanks, History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, pp. 113, 130, for descriptions of the two latter. A “Geog. Description of Florida” is said to have appeared at London, in 1665. Possibly it is the account of Captain Davis’ attack upon St. Augustine.
[127] Descriptio Indiæ Occidentalis, Lib. IV., cap. xiii. (Antwerpt, 1633.)