| sold it unto a goldsmith of Lisbon, out of the which he had a good | | quantitie of gold. | | | | Don Pedro, understanding this, being then gouernor of the realme, | | caused all the things thus brought home, and made knowne, to be | | recorded in the house of Justice.” | | | | The Discoveries of the World, by Antonio Galvano. | | | | [117] Antilia appears as a large island in the Atlantic in the rare | | maps of Andreas Bianco (1436) and Bartolomeo Pareto (1454). On | | Martin Behaim’s globe (1492) it is placed about eighteen hundred | | miles west of the Canaries. In the earliest maps published after | | the return of Columbus to Spain, Antilia is placed near the newly | | discovered islands of the West Indies. | | | | The legend upon the accompanying map may be rendered as follows:— | | | | “The island of Antilia was, at some period, discovered by the | | Lusitanians, but the exact time is not known. There have been | | found there in it families who speak Spanish as it was spoken in | | the days of Roderick, who was the last King of Spain in the time | | of the Goths, and they are supposed to have fled to this island | | from the face of the Barbarians who had then invaded Spain. They | | have here one Archbishop with six other Bishops, each of whom has | | his own proper city, hence it is called by many the island of the | | seven cities. The population are strict Christians and abound in | | all this world’s wealth.” | | | | [118] In the first voyage of Columbus the vessels left the Canaries | | on the 6th of September and arrived off Guanahani on the night | | of the 11th of October, having been thirty days at sea. They had | | traversed a distance, according to the Admiral’s journal, of 1,092 | | leagues or 3,276 miles. On the second voyage from the Canaries to | | Dominica they left on the 3rd of October and arrived on the 3rd of | | November. Upon the last voyage, Columbus left Ferro (one of the | | Canary islands) on the 26th of May and reached St. Lucia in the | | West Indies on the 15th of June. This was a quick passage and only | | occupied twenty days. | | | | In the Vestal, a sailing frigate of 26 guns, we left the island |