Boyador, and the Canaries and other islands in the Atlantic.
The interior of Africa is filled with fantastic pictures of
native tribes; the boat load of men off Cape Boyador in the
extreme S.W. of the map probably represents the Catalan
explorers of the year 1346, whose voyage in search of the
"River of Gold" this map commemorates.


CHART OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, BY BARENTSZOON 128

(Engraved in copper 1595. Almost an unaltered copy of
a Portolano from the 14th century. From Nordenskjöld's
fac-simile atlas). This illustrates the remarkable
correctness in the drawing of the Mediterranean basin
and the coasts of W. Europe, reached by the Italian and
Balearic coast-charts, or Portolani, in the 14th century.


THE BORGIAN MAP OF 1450 290

(B. Mus., Map room, shelf 2 [6], 13, 14; copy of 1797).
This map was executed just before the fall of Constantinople
(1453), and gives a view of the world as imagined
in the 15th century. It is very fantastic and
unscientific, but remarkable among its kind for its
comparative freedom from ecclesiastical influence.


WESTERN SECTION OF THE MAPPE-MONDE OF FRA
MAURO, 1457-9 302