Note 434 — Chapter VI · THE FINDING OF STRANGE COASTS.

Footnote 434: A sketch of this most memorable of maps is given opposite. Columbus carried it with him upon his first voyage, and shaped his course in accordance with it. Las Casas afterwards had it in his possession (Hist. de las Indias, tom. i. pp. 96, 279). It has since been lost, that is to say, it may still be in existence, but nobody knows where. But it has been so well described that the work of restoring its general outlines is not difficult and has several times been done. The sketch here given is taken from Winsor (Narr. and Crit. Hist., ii. 103), who takes it from Das Ausland, 1867, p. 5. Another restoration may be found in St. Martin's Atlas, pl. ix. This map was the source of the western part of Martin Behaim's globe, as given below, p. 422.[Back to Main Text]