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Lincoln (D 61) on mainland, which is omitted by Ghil.
and for which Jom substitutes Saba! We should have
expected to find Catenes (Caithness) in that position.

Edmundeburg (D 60), Edinburgh.

Till] (D 59), the insula de til or tilf of Dulcert (1339),
Andrea Benincasa (1476) and of others, off the Tay.
This imaginary island is believed to be Thule. For a
discussion of the question see Gough's edition of Camden's
« Britannia,' III., 126, 726.

The Western Isles of Hebrides (D 60) are shown, but
the names attached to them, irgan, bea, dfeds (Ghil and
Jom call them argat, tia or ha, and led), are evidently
much corrupted. Among the islands named by Dulcert
(1339) and A. Benincasa (1476) are Argate, bra and
ledros, which Hamy (' Etudes,' p. 436) ventures to identify
with Egach, Bara and Torosay.

Engelant (D 55) with the Royal Standard (the
leopards of England quartered with the lilies of France).
Jork (D 58), given by Jom only, York.
huntingdon (D 57).
glocefter (D 55).
bri/tol (D 54).

Reymor (D 52), given by Jom only. It is A.
Benincasa's Premua or Plymouth.
forlinge (D 56), the Scilly Islands.
Portsmouth (D 53).
lambeth (D 54).
london (D 55).
Cambridge (D 57).

Ilia da man (D 56), the island Man.

J riant (D 55), Ireland with the Royal Standard, the
Irish Harp quartered with the lilies of France.

wales (D 58), erroneously placed in Ireland, but may
be intended for Galveu (Galway), with which Portugal
had frequent intercourse (Barros, 'Asia,' I., I., 126).

castell (D 52), the "VII Castelle " of Pareto (1445),
now Castle rocks in Castle Haven, Co. Cork.

wexford (D 53).

St. Patrici fegfeuer (D 58), St. Patrick's Purgatory, a
cavern filled with Devils, in Lough Derg, Donegal.
For the legend connected with it see Th. Wright, ' St.
Patrick's Purgatory,' London, 1884 ; a flag charged with a
black man, holding in one hand a burning torch, in the
other a stick, rises from this place of pilgrimage, still
visited by humble penitents. Sir A. E. Vicars, Ulster
King of Arms, is " completely at a loss " as to the origin
or meaning of this flag.

Insula de Brazil.

The imaginary Jn/ula de frazil (D 52), to the west of
Ireland, appears for the first time on Dulcert's chart (1339).
Subsequently, in the Medicean Portolano Chart of 1351, it
figures as one of the Azores, usually identified with

Terceira, a cape of which still bears the name of Morro do
Brazil. Later charts, like that of Pizzigani (1367), contained
three islands of the nr»vne, the one furthest north lying to
the west of Ireland It is this northern island which
retained its place on the maps till late in the sixteenth
century, and, together with the islands of St. Brandan
and of the Septe citez it still appears on Mercator's chart
of the world in 1587. It is this northern island which
was searched for in vain between 1480 and 1499, and
figures on Behaim's globe (see Hardiman,' O'Brazil, or the
enchanted island,' London, 1675); O'Flaherty, * a choro-
graphic description of the west of Connaught, 1684,'
published by the Irish Archaeol. Soc. in 1846).

The Azores.

Jn/ula dos azores. . . . catharides (C 40).

Jnsula de Sdcta maria (C 37), ilha de S. Maria.

Jn/ula de /ant michel (C 40). Ilha de S. Miguel, with
the Portuguese flag. We are told nothing about the
" burning mountain" and the great earthquake which
happened in 1444.

Jnsula de Je/u cri/lo (C 43), ilha de Jesus Christo, now
Terceira.

Jn/ula de pico (B 40), ilha do Pico.

neu flandern, oder Injula de faial (B 42), New
Flanders or Ilha do Fayal. Two flags fly above the
islands from the same flagstaff, the upper one with the
arms of Nurnberg, the lower with those of Behaim. Two
more flags are merely shown in outline and may have
been intended for the arms of Portugal and Hurter.
These skeleton flags are omitted on the Paris facsimile.

Jn/ule de flores (C 44), ilha das Flores.

A sea-horse and four vessels sailing to the west are
shown to the south of Flores.

The following legend to the north-east of the Azores
has been added after Behaim's death :—

Martinus pehaimus vergchied zu
lisibona anno domini 1506 im 29juli
(C 45).

naeh cri/li unfers lieben hern gepurt
1431 jar alfs regiert in portugal
jnfante don pedro wurden naeh
notturft zugerichl ztoay fchiff auf 2
Jar gefpeifst von den hochgebornen
Jnfanten don heinrichen defs koniks
aufg portogalli bruder zu erfahren
wafs do wer hinder fanct Jacob fynis
terre weliche fchiff alfo gerufl fegelten
alteeg naeh den untergang der fonnen
oey 500 teusche meilen zuletft
umrden fy ains tags anfichtig dife 10
jnfeln und aufs landt tt tlendt funden
nichts ilann wildnufs und vogel die
waxen fo zam dafx fy nor niemandt
flohen aber von leutten oder thieren
mil vier fiissen war von wege der
wildtnuss kains darkhumen zu wohnen
um defswillen die vogel nil fcheuh

Martin Behaim died at Lisbon in
the year of the Lord 1506 on the
29th July.

1431 years after the birth of our
dear Lord, when there reigned in
Portugal the Infante Don Pedro,
the infant Don Henry, the King of
Portugal's brother, had fitted out
two vessels and found with all that
was needed for two years, in order
to find out what was beyond the
St. James'Cape of Finisterra. The
ships thus provided sailed continuously
to the westward for 500
German miles, and in the end
they sighted these ten islands. On
landing they found nothing but a
wilderness and birds, which were so
tame that they fled no one. But
of men or of four-footed animals
none had come to live there because
of the wilderness, and this accounts
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