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Y. di Joan di Lisboa padroii, wBile tlie intermediate island is 

 inscribed as follows : Yo cJie dediscohrio il fradil pilote (fra- 

 detto?). I have no doubt tliat tlie insertion of an island 

 called De Nazari or Nazare in this map, in the Mappe Monde 

 made by order of Henri II of Erance, in the Amsterdam map 

 of 1595, and elsewhere, arose from a cartographic error. Ou a 

 chart, entitled Mappe Monde de Sebastien Cabot, Pilot Major 

 h. Charles-Quiot (XVIme Siecle) to which on the facsimile is 

 appended the date of 1830, the island of St. Mary, on the 

 East Court of Madagascar is called Y. des Maria Nazareth. 

 The word Nazareth extends so far as to reach a number of 

 shoals and small islands, to which later cartographers seem 

 to have applied it. It will be necessary to ascertain whether 

 this fac- simile of Cabot's Mappe Monde is from another edi- 

 tion of that to which M. D'Avizac gives the date of 1544. On 

 our fac-simile the north-westerly island is called Santa-Polonia, 

 and the island to which Ys Mascaregnas is affixed is half- 

 surrounded by a number of islets on its northern coasts. It is 

 not the more southerly, 



Nearly coinciding with Eibero's map are an anonymous 

 official map of 1527, in the published fac-simile of which how- 

 ever the name Ta de S. Apolouia stands alone, and Sebastien 

 Cabot's map of 1544. On this latter the name of Y Apolonia 

 is given to the north-westerly island, while the name of Ys 

 Mascaregnas seems to include both the others though in closer 

 connection with the most southerly. The same combination 

 is reproduced in the maps of Livio Sanuto, published in 1588, 

 but prepared JVJ. D'Avezac believes, thirty years before that 

 date ; on this the designation " Mascaregnce insulce dues '' is 

 applied to the two islands. 



Mercator in 1869 and Ortelius in 1870, assign the naihe /S. 

 Apollonia to the western isle, Mascaregnas to the next in 

 order, and Dongalopes (evidently a corruption for Diego Lopes) 

 to the Eastern island. 



On a chart intituled " Idrography made be me John Eosz 

 sarvant to the kingis moste excellent majesty in the yer of 

 olbr lord Gode 1542," are traced two islands in nearly the 

 correct relative position of Bourbon and Mauritius, and named 



