. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. end Terra ult. incognita, thus implying—almost without ashadow of doubt—that this strait had been at that datealready visited and recognised as a waterway betweenthe two oceans. South of this an indefinite mass ofland is figured, to which the name of ^^ Brasilie rer/ioor Brasilia Inferior is given. Some distance off theeastern mouth of the strait is placed a small group ofislands. What had Schoner in his mind when he gave thisstrait a place upon his globes ? What were his sourcesof information ? Was it fa
. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. end Terra ult. incognita, thus implying—almost without ashadow of doubt—that this strait had been at that datealready visited and recognised as a waterway betweenthe two oceans. South of this an indefinite mass ofland is figured, to which the name of ^^ Brasilie rer/ioor Brasilia Inferior is given. Some distance off theeastern mouth of the strait is placed a small group ofislands. What had Schoner in his mind when he gave thisstrait a place upon his globes ? What were his sourcesof information ? Was it fact or conjecture that guidedhis pencil 1 These are the questions we have to answer. Some light is thrown upon them by a work of thecosmographer which was published at the same time ashis early globe, and intended to be in great measureillustrative of it.^ In it he speaks of his Brasiliasregio —that the country was not far from the Cape ofGood Hope : that the Portuguese had explored it, and 1 Luculentissima qucedd terrcB totius descriptio. Schoaer, Nurem-berg, 1515, 4to. SCHONERs. SCHONER 1520. CrThHipi Sm 1520.] THE DISCOVERY OF THE STRAIT. 193 had discovered a strait going from east to west; thatthis strait resembled the strait of Gibraltar; and thatMallaqua was not far distant therefrom.^ All this information was, nevertheless, not gatheredat first hand by Schoner. Shortly before he wrote—but how long we do not know, for the title-page bearsno date—was published a certain pamphlet in badGerman, anonymous, and apparently a confused trans-lation of a Portuguese original—the Copia der NewenZeytung mis Presillg Landt. From this he apparentlytook his description almost word for word, and thequestion thus shifts itself a point further back into theexamination of the provenance and authorities of the Copia: We do not get very much information from the workitself, but what we do get is very interesting. Thecaptain of the ship, whose voyage it describes, was a?^fast gilt f
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