With the year 1504 the fishing voyages of the Bretons and Normans to Newfoundland are said to have begun, but there are no accounts of any particular voyage. _Sobre las navegaciones de los vascongados á los mares de Terranova_, in _Navarrete_, tom. iii. p. 176; _Viages Menores_, _Id._, p. 46. Kunstmann, _Entdeckung Am._, p. 69 et seq., makes these trips begin with Denys' in 1503. Juan de la Cosa equipped and armed four vessels, and was despatched in the service of Queen Isabella of Spain, to explore and trade in the vicinity of the gulf of Urabá, and also to check rumored encroachments of the Portuguese in that direction. All that is recorded of the expedition is that in 1506 the crown received 491,708 maravedís as the royal share of the profits. _Carta de Cristobal Guerra_, in _Navarrete_, tom. ii. p. 293; _Carta de la Reina_, in _Id._, tom. iii. p. 109; _Real Cédula, adicion_, _Id._, p. 161. Stevens, in his _Notes_, p. 33, gives the date as 1505. [1505.] Alonso de Ojeda, with three vessels, made a third voyage to Coquibacoa and the gulf of Urabá. _Noticias biográficas del capitan Alonso Hojeda_, in _Navarrete_, tom. iii. p. 169. The letter written by Columbus from Jamaica July 7, 1503, describing the events of his fourth voyage, is preserved in the Spanish archives. If printed, no copies are known to exist, but an Italian translation appeared as _Copia de la Lettera_, Venetia, 1505. A Portuguese map made about 1505 by Pedro Reinel shapes Newfoundland more accurately than the map of 1504, being the first to give the name 'C. Raso' to the south-east point; but Greenland is drawn much less correctly. _Kunstmann_, _Entdeckung Am._, pp. 125-7; _Munich Atlas_, no. i. Plate ix. in _Kohl's Hist. Discov._, pp. 177-9, differs materially from the fac-simile in the _Munich Atlas_. See also _Peschel_, _Geschichte der Entd._, p. 332; _Schmeller_, _Ueber einigen der handschriftlichen Seekarten_, in _Akademie der Wissenschaften_, _Abhandl._, tom. iv. pt. i. p. 247 et seq. [1506.] The Bretons under Jean Denys are said to have explored the gulf of St Lawrence, and to have made a map which has not been found. The reports of this and of succeeding voyages northward are exceedingly vague. _Charlevoix_, _Hist. de la Nouvelle France_, Paris, 1744, tom. i. p. 4; _Viages Menores_, in _Navarrete_, tom. iii. p. 41; _Kohl's Hist. Discov._, pp. 201-5; _Kunstmann_, _Entdeckung Am._, p. 69; _Bancroft's Hist. U. S._, vol. i. p. 16.