. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, Riccardiana—a . d . 153 4—40 There seems to be good reason to infer that JoaoAlvarez Fagundes was familiar with the gulf longbefore Cartiers first voyage. On the i 3th of March,15 21, he was granted letters patent for lands discoveredby him, where he was to settle a colony. A number 61 MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER of islands are mentioned in this document, the namesof which appear on later charts and enable us to iden-tify the field
. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, Riccardiana—a . d . 153 4—40 There seems to be good reason to infer that JoaoAlvarez Fagundes was familiar with the gulf longbefore Cartiers first voyage. On the i 3th of March,15 21, he was granted letters patent for lands discoveredby him, where he was to settle a colony. A number 61 MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER of islands are mentioned in this document, the namesof which appear on later charts and enable us to iden-tify the field of his exploits/ For many years afterCabots discovery the coast of Newfoundland was veryimperfectly represented in charts. It is known that. La Cosa— 1500 Don Pedro de Ayala, the Spanish ambassador to thecourt of Henry VII, sent to the Spanish king a map ofthe first voyage of Cabot in 1497, and there is little ^ Fide Decouverte et Evolution Cartographique, etc., Harrisse, Paris, 1900, pp. XXV, 86, 135, 218. 62 MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER doubt that it was followed by a map of the second voy-age. The knowledge thus obtained resulted in thefamous planisphere of Juan de la Cosa, made in might expect to find on this map something ap-proximating this island; but a continuous coast-lineextends north and south with no resemblance to the {
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