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St. ApoJim (Bourbon) and de Mascarenlias (Mauritius.) To 

 the South "West of St. Apolina is a small islet unnamed, and 

 far to Southward of the two islands another inscribed Jo. de 

 Litiboa. 



The Indian Ocean as depicted in Martin Behaim's Mappe- 

 monde is too confused to furnish any satisfactory evidence. 



A Mappemonde, made by order of Henry II of France, 

 seems to indicate Bourbon as St. ApolUne, Mauritius as des 

 Mascarenhas de Bomif. z. ; some way to the Eastward is an 

 island marked de Do Beiz, and to the Southward one marked 

 de than (^sic^ Lishoa. 



A M. S. Portuguese atlas in the Imperial Library of Paris, 

 from the De Eosnay library, shews three islands nearly in a 

 line from West to East, with the names successively, 8. Apo- 

 lonia, I. do Cirne, de JDjo Eoiz while W. S. "W. of the second of 

 these there is another called Damas CarenJias (sic). It is 

 very unfortunate that this atlas has no date ; it is probably 

 early aud possibly contains the earliest record of the name of 

 Cirne being given to the island, The first historical evidence 

 of the fact, hitherto recognised, seems to be the account of 

 the Dutch Expedition under Wybrant de Warwick, who, on 

 the 20th of September 1598, gave the island the name Mauri- 

 tius after the stadholder. But a map published in Amsterdam,* 

 in 1595, has the name Do Cirne, and this is the first cartogra- 

 phic notice of it that I have found. This map seems to have 

 been unknown to M. D'Avezac who thought there was no 

 actual evidence of the island being called Cirne, anterior to the 

 accidental mention of it in the Dutch account just alluded to. 



Diva Norca or Diva Moraze or Mozara, Saint Apolonia, 

 Cirne, Mauritius, Isle of France— such is the order of the 

 names which have from time to time been employed to de- 

 signate the island which has now resumed the appellation 

 given to it by Admiral de Warwick.f At what date its earlier 



* Dehneatio Orarum Maritimarum Terrs viilga indigetataj Terra do Nalal 

 itemSofala, Mozambicje el MelinclEe Insuiteq. Sancti Laurentij una cum 

 insuhs scopulis Pulvinus (sic) vadis... ad exactissimas Ichuographicas Indi- 

 garum tabulas recognita atq. emendata.— F. Arnoldus Langren. Amsterdam. 



t The name of Mascarenhas seems to have been apphed to Mauritius, as 

 one of a group of islands to which that designation was given collectively. 



