Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . w in 1500. He thereforecopied it very carefully, and labelled it as follows:— This land was discovered by the order of the mostexcellent Prince Dom Emmanuel, King of Portugal,and is found to be the extremity of Asia. They whodiscovered it were not able to land, but they examinedit and saw nothing but mountains. For this reason itis believed to be the extremity of Asia. Now it is clearly impossible that Corte Real could insuch a short time have become so well acquainted withthe outlines of Greenland as is here shown, and the maptherefore d
Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . w in 1500. He thereforecopied it very carefully, and labelled it as follows:— This land was discovered by the order of the mostexcellent Prince Dom Emmanuel, King of Portugal,and is found to be the extremity of Asia. They whodiscovered it were not able to land, but they examinedit and saw nothing but mountains. For this reason itis believed to be the extremity of Asia. Now it is clearly impossible that Corte Real could insuch a short time have become so well acquainted withthe outlines of Greenland as is here shown, and the maptherefore does not delineate only what he had seen, andthe fact of the above label being attached to Greenlandcannot be considered conclusive evidence that he hadseen a part any more than the whole of it. Somewriters are of opinion that it actually was Greenlandwhich Corte Real saw in 1500, but when it is re-membered that the country arrived at in 1501 wasNewfoundland, and that it was contiguous to the landseen on the previous voyage, it must be admitted that,. CARTOGRAPHICAL EVOLUTION 59 in all probability, our Labrador was the ice-bound coastwhich he could not attain. Perhaps also the geo-grapher may have been misled in some curious way bythe fact that Corte Real had given the land he dis-covered the name of Tierra Verde. It must also beremembered that the early voyagers were very erraticin their longitudes, while their latitudes were fairlycorrect. Even Frobishers discoveries were misunder-stood, and until the end of the eighteenth centuryFrobishers Straits were marked on the east coast ofGreenland. On the Cantino map is seen, near to Greenland, anoutline of the country which Corte Real visited in label attached to it reads :— This land was discovered by the order of the veryhigh and most excellent Prince, Dom Emmanuel, Kingof Portugal, the which Gaspar Corte Real, gentlemanof the Kings house, discovered. He sent thence a shipwith some men and women of the country, remaine
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