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C. SKOTTSBERG 



MASAFUERA 



Vicente Forrai 



Kodado del Sindilo 



Scale 1:100000 



GENERALSTABENS LITOGRAFISKA ANSTALT 

 STOCKHOLM 1953 



Fig. 54. Map of Masafuera. After Skottsberg. 



modore sent a sloop to Masafuera to look for them there, and when she returned 

 after a fruitless search, during which the island was circumnavigated, a report 

 was drawn up with the first real description of the island. Anchorage had been 

 found on the north side close to the shore but protected from S only (I.e. p. 156). 

 PI. X.XI is a view of the Xl^ side of "Masa-Fuero", as the name is spelled. It 

 shows the table-land uj) to the highest hills well forested, and we have little 

 reason to doubt that such was the situation 200 years ago. Four places along 

 the coast are marked with the letters a, b, b, and c\ a seems to indicate a reef, 

 b and b arc the entrances to two of the canyons. I believe that a also indicates 

 (J. Casas and that b are (J. Ovalo and (,). Sanchez; c is the waterfall coming 

 down from (). Larga. PI. XXII, pretending to show the west side, is less easy 

 to read. 1 think tliat it re[)resents the north-west section of the coast from Cabo 

 Xorte south toward Loberia X'ieja, but nothing like the perfectly cylindric tower 

 on the extreme right in the picture exists — the only thing I can think of is 



