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Ths map dated to late 1500 was made very much in the shadow of Cabral's
voyage during which he touched and explored a portion of the east coast of
Brazil. Cosa depicts this coastline as part of a island with at least an
implicit reference to Cabral's discovery.
The other interesting thing which I saw more clearly in von Humbolt's
facsimile version fo this famous map are some islands in the South Atlantic --
south of the Gold coast and more or less due west of Zaire/Congo.
As I recall there were some small Portuguese flags placed on these islands
which do not seem to correspond to any islands in that vicinity today.
On wonders how many small islands have been swallowed up by the rising
level of the oceans over the past 500 years.
Peter Dickson
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