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48 ST. BRENDAN'S ISLANDS this coast is fifteen hundred miles long or fifteen hundred miles distant. The map of Juan de la Cosa (isoo) 25 exhibits off the coast of Brazil, and with an outline similar to Behaim's, "the island which the Portuguese found." His date is too late to have influ- enced Behaim, too early to have been prompted by Cabral's accidental discovery of that very year. It is more likely that he and Behaim both were acquainted with Bianco's work or that all three drew from the same report of discovery. LATER MAPS From this time on tl^e^isjQeiiexjSore than one island for St. Brendan, but it indulges in wide wanderings. Especially as the attention of men was attracted to the more northern and western waters, the map-makers shifted the island thither. Thus the map of 1544, purporting to be the work of Sebastian Cabot and prob- ably prepared more or less under his influence, 26 places the island San Brandan not far from the scene of his father's explorations and his own. It lies well out to sea in about the latitude of the Straits of Belle Isle. The Ortelius map of I57O 27 (Fig. 10) repeats the showing with no great amount of change. In short, the final judgment of navigators and cartographers, before the island quite vanished from the maps, made choice of the waste of the North Atlantic as its most probable hiding place. Perhaps this west- ward tendency in rather high latitudes may be partly responsible for the hypotheses in recent times which have taken the explorer quite across to interior North America on a missionary errand. There is certainly nothing to prohibit any one from believing them, if he can and if it pleases him. CONCLUSION In general review & RppparsUikglyJbhat jt. BrejidanJcLthe sixth century wandered widely over the seas in quest of some 25 Kretschmer, atlas, PI. 7. 26 S. E. Dawson: The Voyages of the Cabots in 1497 and 1498; With an Attempt to Determine Their Landfall and to Identify Their Island of St. John, Trans. Royal Soc. of Canada, Vol. 12, Section II, 1894; rnap on p. 86. The map is also reproduced by Jomard, in the work cited in footnote 13. 27 A. E. Nordenskiold: Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography, transl. by J. A. Ekelof and C. R. Markham, Stockholm, 1889, PI. 46.