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The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

Note 126-1 — JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS

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The names in the Spanish text are Colba and Bosio, errors in transcription for Cuba and Bohio. Las Casas, I. 315, says in regard to the latter: “To call it Bohio was to misunderstand the interpreters, since throughout all these islands, where the language is practically the same, they call the huts in which they live bohio and this great island Española they called Hayti, and they must have said that in Hayti there were great bohios.”

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