By selecting Turk for the first landfall, an extreme S. E. island of the Bahamas, Ifavarrete
confronts Juan de la Cosa and Antonio Herrera; for on their charts, which will be referred to later,
Guanahaiii is an island situated near the middle of the IST. E. side of the Bahama group.
The Track of YAENHAaEN.
Varnhagen said, 1st: Columbus made the island of Mariguana steering west j he rounded the
east end and anchored on the northeast shore. Hence he steered W. J N. 40 miles for Creek Point
on Acklin Island; followed the north and south shore for 13 miles, and the east and west shore 29
miles, and so over to the south cape of Long Island.
(*) Italio8 are by the writer.
(*) It was obviously the midnight which began this day.
(3) How could Little luagfla bear N. W. of him 22.3 miles?



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Answbb. Yarnhagen, like Navarrete, ignores the assertion of Columbus of October 13: "I de-
termined to wait until to-morrow evening and then to sail for the southwest." He has even omitted
this weighty sentence from his Oeschichte des Zeitalters der Entdechungm.
