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HOME OF PORTUGUESE REFUGEES 71 rangement of five bays of like form and carries the names, simi- larly applied, of Arahas, Duchal, Imada, Nom, and Consilla. They can hardly be extra bishops' towns. At least we are in the dark about them. The anonymous map sometimes attributed to 1424 and preserved at Weimar 10 shows in photographic copy traces of names, or at least letters, on the part of Antillia which it represents. Its true date is believed to be about that of Benincasa's map above cited. But the markings do not seem to be identical and are very meager. THE LEGENDARY HOME OF PORTUGUESE REFUGEES However, there can be no doubt of Toscanelli's meaning at an earlier date in the passage quoted. The same is true of Behaim's globe (1492), though he discards the accepted form of Antillia. He appends a long inscription, translated by Raven- stein as follows: In the year 734 of Christ, when the whole of Spain had been won by the heathen (Moors) of Africa, the above island Antilia, called Septe citade (Seven cities), was inhabited by an archbishop from the Porto in Portugal, with six other bishops, and other Christians, men and women, who had fled thither from Spain, by ship, together with their cattle, belongings, and goods. 1414 a ship from Spain got nighest it without being endangered. 11 Again, in Ruysch's map of 1508 there is "a large island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between Lat. N. 37 and 40. It is called Antilia Insula, and a long legend asserts that it had been discovered long ago by the Spaniards, whose last Gothic king, Roderik, had taken refuge there from the invasion of the Barbarians." 12 Ferdinand Columbus, living between 1488 and 1539, says that some Portuguese cartographers had located 10 W. H. Babcock: Indications of Visits of White Men to America before Colum- bus, Proc. igth Internatl. Congr. of Americanists, Held at Washington, Dec. 27-31, IQIS, [Smithsonian Institution], Washington, D. C., 1917. PP- 460-478; map on p. 476. 11 E. G. Ravenstein: Martin Behaim: His Life and His Globe, London, 1908, P. 77- "A. E. Nordenskiold: Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography, transl. by J. A. Ekelof and C. R. Markham. Stockholm, 1889, p. 65 and PI. 32.