<ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="acd20ff7-b040-4243-920f-f7b04002436f" corresp="#b4261dcc-c9be-47a3-a61d-ccc9beb7a32b" type="editorialNote"> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010795 https://www.geonames.org/3574532"> <choice> <abbr>Pta</abbr> <expan>Punta</expan> </choice> de la Galera</placeName> <lb />de <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013144 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118564994">Colomb</persName> et <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012957 http://viaf.org/viaf/22396829">Caulín</persName><supplied cert="high">,</supplied></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="b4261dcc-c9be-47a3-a61d-ccc9beb7a32b" corresp="#acd20ff7-b040-4243-920f-f7b04002436f" type="editorial" resp="#UL">Diese Bemerkungen Humboldts betreffen die Frage, welche Orte <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013144 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118564994">Kolumbus</persName> bei seiner Ankunft in Amerika zuerst gesichtet hat. Wie Humboldt später schrieb, waren es während dessen dritter Reise die beiden Inseln <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009520 https://www.geonames.org/3573591">Trinidad</placeName> und <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009433 https://www.geonames.org/3573606">Tobago</placeName>. In der <hi rendition="#i">Relation historique</hi> erläutert Humboldt die Probleme der Bezeichnungen: <quote>C’est là que Christophe-Colomb mouilla le 3 août 1498. Il existe une grande confusion dans la dénomination des différens caps de l’île de la Trinité; et comme récemment, depuis l’expédition de <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000090 http://viaf.org/viaf/60484857">Fidalgo</persName> et de <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013061 http://viaf.org/viaf/49379527">Churruca</persName>, les Espagnols comptent les longitudes dans <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010380 https://www.geonames.org/6255150">l’Amérique méridionale</placeName> à l’ouest de la <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010795 https://www.geonames.org/3574532">Punta de la Galera</placeName> […] Voici le résultat de mes recherches: Colomb appela Punta Galera le cap sud-est de l’île, à cause de la forme d’un rocher 'que desde lexos parecia Salera que Iba a la vela.' (Histoire de l’Amiral par son fils <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013141 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119284820">Ferdinand Colomb</persName>, dans Churchill Collect. Tom. II, p. 584. Herera, Dec. I, p. 80.) On voit clairement, par le récit de Colomb, que de Punta de la Galera il a cinglé à l’ouest pour atterrir à un cap très bas qu’il nomme Punta del Arenal: c’est notre <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018649 https://www.geonames.org/3574388">Punta de Icacos</placeName>. Dans ce trajet, près d’un endroit (Punta de la Playa) où il fit de l’eau (peut-être à l’embouchure du <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017526 https://www.geonames.org/3574585">Río Erin</placeName>), il vit au sud pour la première fois le continent de l’Amérique, qu’il appela Isla Santa. C’est donc la côte orientale de la <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018300 https://www.geonames.org/3626655">province de Cumana</placeName>. […] Sur les cartes de <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004246 http://viaf.org/viaf/71443223">La Cruz</persName> (1775) et de <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012957 http://viaf.org/viaf/22396829">Caulin</persName> (1778), on a continué de nommer, avec Colomb, Punta Galera le cap sud-est (lat. 10° 9′) de la Trinité, qui est la <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017189 https://www.geonames.org/3574533">Punta Galeota</placeName> des navigateurs modernes. Mais déjà <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011983 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119072149">Hondius</persName> (dans les cartes de 1598), <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011825 http://d-nb.info/gnd/124683738">Herera</persName> (Descripcion de las Indias, 1615), [<persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018921 https://d-nb.info/gnd/12360978X">Nicolas</persName> und <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018920 https://d-nb.info/gnd/129000884">Guillaume</persName>] Sanson (carte de 1669), <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012653 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117662046">D’Anville</persName> et tous les géographes modernes anglois et françois, à l’exception de <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003473 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117618543">Bonne</persName> (dans l’Atlas de <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000761 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118969420">Raynal</persName>), désignent sous le nom de Punta de la Galera le cap nord-est de la Trinité (lat. 10° 50), celui que l’on croit faussement avoir été vu le premier par Colomb.</quote> <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/DR2NAW3J">Humboldt 1814–1825</bibl>, II, 702–703, vgl. auch <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/EWHAUTU9">Humboldt 1836–1839</bibl>, I, 257ff.</note> <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a12040e3-aaff-4550-a040-e3aaff15505a" corresp="#a348f5e7-df62-4212-88f5-e7df620212f6" type="editorialNote"> <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016174 http://viaf.org/viaf/56913550">Surville</persName> </ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a348f5e7-df62-4212-88f5-e7df620212f6" corresp="#a12040e3-aaff-4550-a040-e3aaff15505a" type="editorial" resp="#UL">Survilles Karte <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/FCZ3Q7ZG">Surville 1778</bibl> wurde Caulíns Werk <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/6K2DPHSM">Caulín 1779</bibl> beigegeben, da seine eigenen bei Erscheinen bereits überholt waren. Humboldt besaß eine Kopie dieser Karte. Im <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/7PJ9KWUG">ART IV</bibl>, 108v, existiert eine Skizze eines <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010593 https://www.geonames.org/3631298">Orinoco</placeName>ausschnitts dieser Karte. Vgl. <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/EJZWKDV2">Humboldt 2000</bibl>, 331; vgl. auch <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/PAK2TXDS">Leitner 2017</bibl>, 33.</note> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />et <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="ac8a6106-1426-4757-8a61-0614269757d7" corresp="#fd77e6bb-4169-4e06-b7e6-bb41693e06c8" type="editorialNote"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/X9QR2FSN"><persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0004246 http://viaf.org/viaf/71443223">La Cruz</persName></bibl></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="fd77e6bb-4169-4e06-b7e6-bb41693e06c8" corresp="#ac8a6106-1426-4757-8a61-0614269757d7" type="editorial" resp="#CG"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/X9QR2FSN">La Cruz Cano y Olmedilla 1775</bibl>. Die Karte wurde 1799 von <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000016 http://d-nb.info/gnd/1017214670">William Faden</persName> in <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743">London</placeName> neu herausgegeben. Vgl. <ref target="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016412/nqmz_m5g_52b">Anm. zu Bl. 84v</ref>.</note> est <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017189 https://www.geonames.org/3574533"> <choice> <abbr>P<hi rendition="#sup">ta</hi> </abbr> <expan>Punta</expan> </choice> Galeota</placeName> d’<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006006 http://d-nb.info/gnd/100129269">Espinosa</persName>. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0012957 http://viaf.org/viaf/22396829">Caulín</persName> blâme <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="covered" unit="words" quantity="1" /> <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="ed849581-756c-4474-8495-81756ce47482" corresp="#d11398c8-f947-4324-9398-c8f947f324c3" type="editorialNote"><persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013718 http://d-nb.info/gnd/123420660">Gumilla</persName></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="d11398c8-f947-4324-9398-c8f947f324c3" corresp="#ed849581-756c-4474-8495-81756ce47482" type="editorial">Vgl. <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/3FEGCD5D">Gumilla 1741</bibl>, <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/HWIFJPHF">Gumilla 1758</bibl>.</note> <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>p.</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> <space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" unit="chars" quantity="3" /> mais <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <metamark xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" function="used" spanTo="#yry_vxt_mqb" /><metamark xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />déjà <bibl xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/6IUDQ3R3"> <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011983 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119072149">Hondius</persName> (Carte <lb />1598)</bibl> et <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011825 http://d-nb.info/gnd/124683738">Herera</persName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a5884359-be58-45c2-8843-59be5835c2ec" corresp="#fde00e98-4c33-4b7a-a00e-984c332b7aa8" type="editorialNote"> <choice> <abbr>Descr.</abbr> <expan>Descripcion</expan> </choice><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> <unclear reason="illegible" cert="high">11</unclear> </ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="fde00e98-4c33-4b7a-a00e-984c332b7aa8" corresp="#a5884359-be58-45c2-8843-59be5835c2ec" type="editorial" resp="#UL"> <quote>[…] la <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009520 https://www.geonames.org/3573591">Trinidad</placeName> […] tiene <measure quantity="50" unit="legua">50 Leguas</measure> de largo […] i casi 30 de ancho. Descubrióla el Año de 1498. el Almirante D. <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013144 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118564994">Cristoval</persName>, en el tercero viage, que hiço á las Indias: i la llamó la Trinidad, porque iendo mui trabajado del viage, havia prometido à Dios de dàr tal Nombre à la primera Tierra que hallase […] la parte mas Oriental de ella, es una Punta por la parte del Norte, que llaman de la <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010795 https://www.geonames.org/3574532">Galera</placeName> […]</quote> (<bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/FFMP2259">Herrera y Tordesillas 1601</bibl>, 11).</note> comme <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006006 http://d-nb.info/gnd/100129269">Espinosa</persName> et nous<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Donc <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013144 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118564994">Colon</persName> très clair<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />il va de <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010795 https://www.geonames.org/3574532"> <choice> <abbr>P<hi rendition="#sup">ta</hi> </abbr> <expan>Punta</expan> </choice> Galera</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />à l’<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">ouest</hi> à <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002534"> <choice> <abbr>P<hi rendition="#sup">ta</hi> </abbr> <expan>Punta</expan> </choice> <lb />del Arenal</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />(qui par les fables <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />est sans doute <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />notre <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018649 https://www.geonames.org/3574388"> <choice> <abbr>P<hi rendition="#sup">ta</hi> </abbr> <expan>Punta</expan> </choice> Jaacos</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">)</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />et à <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018605 https://www.geonames.org/3573694">Boca <lb />de Sierpi </placeName> et <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017405 https://www.geonames.org/3573671">islote del Gallo</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />(<ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="ed882ef5-eebd-41a2-882e-f5eebd91a2ed" corresp="#a298ba55-cb46-4d88-98ba-55cb467d88fe" type="editorialNote"><foreign xml:lang="lat">nunc</foreign></ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a298ba55-cb46-4d88-98ba-55cb467d88fe" corresp="#ed882ef5-eebd-41a2-882e-f5eebd91a2ed" type="editorial" resp="#UL">Lat.: jetzt.</note> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017405 https://www.geonames.org/3573671">Soldado</placeName>)<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />du <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017405 https://www.geonames.org/3573671">Gallo</placeName> il voit <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005270 https://www.geonames.org/3574622">Boca de Dragos</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />du Nord. La première terre <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />du continent <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />que vit<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="right"><metamark />II l’apella <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018663">Isla <lb />Santa</placeName>, car <lb />(plus tard) il apella <lb /> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008122 https://www.geonames.org/3630694">Paria</placeName> Isla de Gracia. Cette dernière <lb />lui parut <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019220">terre ferme</placeName><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <lb /> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008115 https://www.geonames.org/3630695">Golfo de Paria</placeName> = Golfo <lb />de la Balena y de las <lb />Perlas.</add> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="right"> <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013144 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118564994">Colon</persName> allant <lb />de <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010795 https://www.geonames.org/3574532"> <choice> <abbr>P<hi rendition="#sup">ta</hi> </abbr> <expan>Punta</expan> </choice> Galera</placeName> <lb />à <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018532"> <choice> <abbr>P<hi rendition="#sup">ta</hi> </abbr> <expan>Punta</expan> </choice> de la <lb />Playa</placeName><supplied cert="high">,</supplied></add> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="mTop"><metamark />où <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0013144 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118564994">Colon</persName> fit de l’eau <lb />sans doute le <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017526 https://www.geonames.org/3574585">Río Erin</placeName><choice> <sic>.</sic> <corr cert="high">,</corr> </choice></add> <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="right">à <measure quantity="25" unit="lieue">25 <lb />lieues</measure> (sans doute <lb />trop) étoit <lb />donc <lb />à l’est <lb /> <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019002">Caño Ma<lb break="no" />carco</placeName>, <choice> <orig>peutê<lb break="no" />tre </orig> <reg>peut-être</reg> </choice> <choice> <abbr>P<hi rendition="#sup">ta</hi> </abbr> <expan>Punta</expan> </choice> redonda <lb />(<choice> <abbr>dist.</abbr> <expan>distance</expan> </choice> au <lb />plus <measure quantity="6" unit="lieue">6</measure>–<measure quantity="9" unit="lieue">9 <lb />lieues</measure>.) <lb /> <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/CHBZT3X4">Churchill<supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <add place="sublinear"><choice> <abbr>T</abbr> <expan>Tome</expan> </choice> II</add><supplied cert="high">,</supplied> <choice> <abbr>p</abbr> <expan>page</expan> </choice> 584</bibl>. </add><anchor xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="used" xml:id="yry_vxt_mqb" />