Ground-plan of so-called "House of the Nuns" at Uxmal, _ditto_ 133 Map of the East Bygd, or eastern settlement of the Northmen in Greenland, _reduced from Rafn's Antiquitates Americanae_ 160, 161 Ruins of the church at Kakortok, _from Major's Voyages of the Zeni, published by the Hakluyt Society_ 222 Zeno Map, cir. 1400, _ditto_ 232, 233 Map of the World according to Claudius Ptolemy, cir. A. D. 150, _an abridged sketch after a map in Bunbury's History of Ancient Geography_ _Facing_ 265 Two sheets of the Catalan Map, 1375, _from Yule's Cathay, published by the Hakluyt Society_ 288, 289 Map of the World according to Pomponius Mela, cir. A. D. 50, _from Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America_ 304 Map illustrating Portuguese voyages on the coast of Africa, _from a sketch by the author_ 324 Toscanelli's Map, 1474, _redrawn and improved from a sketch in Winsor's America_ _Facing_ 357 Annotations by Columbus, _reduced from a photograph in Harrisse's Notes on Columbus_ 373 Sketch of Martin Behaim's Globe, 1492, preserved in the city hall at Nuremberg, _reduced to Mercator's projection and sketched by the author_ 422, 423 Sketch of Martin Behaim's Atlantic Ocean, with outline of the American continent superimposed, _from Winsor's America_ 429 Map of the discoveries made by Columbus in his first and second voyages, _sketched by the author_ 469 Map of the discoveries made by Columbus in his third and fourth voyages, _ditto_ 493 Arms of Ferdinand Columbus, _from the title-page of Harrisse's Fernand Colomb_ 515 THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. CHAPTER I. ANCIENT AMERICA. [Sidenote: The American aborigines.]