Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . with the fur outside in summer but inside inwinter. They paint their faces. They have no ironand use instead instruments of stone. There are largeforests of pine trees and many fish, salmon, etc. The Kunstman IV map, 1520, on the part called do Lavrador bears the following legend : The Portu-guese saw this land but did not land there, and on thepart corresponding to Newfoundland called Bacalaos,this inscription: This land was first discovered byCaspar Cortereal, Portuguese. He brought from thencesavage men and white bears. Many animals, b
Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . with the fur outside in summer but inside inwinter. They paint their faces. They have no ironand use instead instruments of stone. There are largeforests of pine trees and many fish, salmon, etc. The Kunstman IV map, 1520, on the part called do Lavrador bears the following legend : The Portu-guese saw this land but did not land there, and on thepart corresponding to Newfoundland called Bacalaos,this inscription: This land was first discovered byCaspar Cortereal, Portuguese. He brought from thencesavage men and white bears. Many animals, birds,and fish are found there. The following year he wasshipwrecked and never returned. His brother Miguelthe year after met the same fate. Which adds proofto the opinion maintained here that the name Labradorwas not derived from the savages sent back by support of this theory may be quoted Thomes letterto Dr. Leigh, written from Seville in 1527, in which hesays, referring to the dominion of Spain in the New (geNJTiORBK fEKkEMARi^lQEF^:^. From WaldsecinulUr Maps, by kind permission nj //. Stevens Sons and StilesCARTA MARIXA, 1516 Facing p. 64 CARTOGRAPHICAL EVOLUTION 65 World : Which maine land or coast goeth northwardand finisheth in the land that we found, which is calledhere Terra de Labrador, so that it appeareth the saidland that we found and the Indies are all one maineland. From which it is very evident that the positionof Labrador was clearly understood at the time inSeville, even if the maps were incorrect and vague. About the middle of the sixteenth century thereflourished in Seville a well-known cosmographer namedAlonso de Santa Cruz, who is described as expert inall the arts and mathematics. He had accompaniedSebastian Cabot on his disastrous voyage to La Plata,and was later one of the band of scientists to whom wasentrusted the correction of Le Padron General or charton which was noted all new discoveries. There is still extant a manuscript by him whic
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