Cesicebergs, quand ils se heurtent contre un navire, le coulent a pic; etcomme ils arrivent a l'improviste, escortes par d'epais brouillards, ilsparaissent reellement sortir du sein des flots, comme sortait la main deSatan, pour precipiter au fond de l'abime matelots et navires." As to thename itself there has been much discussion. On the map of Bianco (1436)--reproduced in Winsor, I. p. 54--the name "Ya de Lamansatanaxio" distinctlyappears, and this was translated by both Formaleoni and Humboldt asmeaning "the Island of the Hand of Satan." D'Avezac was the first tosuggest that the reference was to two separate islands, the one named "Dela Man" or "Danman," and the other "Satanaxio." He further suggests--followed by Gaffarel--that the name of the island may originally have beenSan Atanagio, thus making its baptism a tribute to St. Athanasius insteadof to Satan. This would certainly have been a curious transformation, andalmost as unexpected in its way as the original conversion of the sinfulbrothers from outlaws to missionaries.XV. ANTILLIAThe name Antillia appears first, but not very clearly, on the Piziganimap of 1367; then clearly on a map of 1424, preserved at Weimar, on thatof Bianco in 1436, and on the globe of Beheim in 1492, which adds in aninscription the story of the Seven Bishops.
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