Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . d it is to be presumed that he hadreturned to Portugal. M. Ernesto de Canto, in his Archivos dos Agores,1894, points out that, in 1508, King Emmanuel ofPortugal gave certain privileges to an Azorean namedPero de Barcellos for discoveries made by him innorthern regions. Associated with Pero de Barcelloswas Joao Fernandez, described as lavrador, themeaning of which, according to M. de Canto, is rather landowner than labourer. There can be littledoubt that this was the same Joao Fernandez whosailed from Bristol in 1501. What particular voyag
Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . d it is to be presumed that he hadreturned to Portugal. M. Ernesto de Canto, in his Archivos dos Agores,1894, points out that, in 1508, King Emmanuel ofPortugal gave certain privileges to an Azorean namedPero de Barcellos for discoveries made by him innorthern regions. Associated with Pero de Barcelloswas Joao Fernandez, described as lavrador, themeaning of which, according to M. de Canto, is rather landowner than labourer. There can be littledoubt that this was the same Joao Fernandez whosailed from Bristol in 1501. What particular voyagefrom Portugal it was that he and Pero de Barcelloshad conducted has not been ascertained, but the guessmay be hazarded that it was one of the expeditionswhich went to seek for Caspar Corte Real. It is stated again and again on the early maps thatLabrador was discovered by the people of Bristol. Onemap gives us additional information and supplies theconnecting link which incontestably settles the deriva-tion of the name. It is an MS. map by an unknown. THE DERIVATION OF THE NAME 55 author, drawn about the year 1530, which is preservedin the library of the Duke of Wolfenbuttel. ProfessorStevens, of Rutgers College, New Jersey, has onlyrecently obtained leave to copy it, and has just pub-lished an excellent facsimile, from which the accompany-ing illustration has been made. In the outlines of thenorth-east coast of America and in the nomenclature,it is an exact copy of the Ribero map of 1529. But onthe country named Tierra del Labrador it is written: This country was discovered by the people of thetown of Bristol, and because he who first sighted landwas a labourer from the islands of the Azores it wasnamed after him. It has been suggested that this was a likely thing forsailors to do, seeing themselves outdone by a reputedfarmer. Taken altogether, this evidence from such diversesources seems to be conclusive, and, unless somethingmore definite is disclosed in the future, must be
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