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NOTE VIII. trage 220.) 



The Excessive Duiexsions of Guadalcanar. — How could such misconceptions have 

 arisen ? They are totally iucousisteut with the rest of the journal ; and to such statyinents 

 must be attributed the exaggerated reiiorts which loiig jjrevailed with reference to the size of 

 this island. The lengths of the islands of Isabel, Malaita, and St. Christoval, as given by 

 Gallego, are greatly overstated ; in the ease of the two former islands they are at least 

 double the true dimensions, and they completely disagree with the latitudes and bearing,, 

 which are noted in the journal. 



NOTE IX. (Page 233.) 



The Consultation as to the Future Course of the Expedition. — The ignorance ia 

 which Mendaua seems to have kept his officeis with regard to the character of his instruc- 

 tions considerably hampered the captains and pilots in their consultation. Wj learn sub- 

 sequently (i;age 237) that it was originally intended to prosecute the voyage westward in order 

 to explore the extensive lands that lay in that direction. However, the protest made by the 

 crews seems to have caused a change of plans. They were to steer northward for the Isle of 

 Jesus, where Gallego apparently expected to find more land, as they provided themselves 

 with natives as interpreters (page 233) before quitting the group. This northerly course found 

 favour, when GaUego pointed out that it was on the track of their return voyage. 



NOTE X. (Page 234.) 

 Islands in the Solomon Group which do not at Present bear the Names given to 



THEM BT the SPANIARDS: — 



Present name. Spanish name. 



Ugi San Juan 



Three Sisters Las Tres Maiias 



Ulaua (Contraries.) La Treguada 



Malaita Eamos (Isle of) 



Savo Sesarga 



Ontong Ja va ! Candelaria Shoals 



Choiseul San Marcos 



New Georgia (?) i Sati Nicolas 



I Airacises (Keefs). 



NOTE XL (Page 237.) 



INIGO Ortez de Retes and Bernardo de la Torre. — We learn from Galvano's 

 "Discoveries of the World," ^ that in 1545 Captain Inigo Ortez de Eotha was dispatched 

 from Tidore to New Spain. He sailed to the coast of Papua, and not knowing that Saavedra 

 had discovered it in 1528, he assumed the honour of the discovery. Mr. Coutts Trotter in a 

 recent artic e - refers to him as Ortiz de Retez or Roda, and he inforrcs us elsewhere ^ that 

 Antonio de Abreu was probably the first discoverer of New Guinea in 1511. According to 

 Galvano (page 234), a Spanish ofiBcer named Bernaldo de la Torre started from the Philiji- 

 pines in 1543, on a voyage to New Spain. 



NOTE XII. (Page 238.) 



The islands of San BaRTOLOMEO. — The Musquillo Islands of the Marshall Group, 

 with which I have identified this discovery of the Spaniards, were thus named by Captain 

 Bond in 1792.* They form a double atoll about 38 miles in length and trending N.W. and 



' Hakluyt Society's Publication, 1862, p. 2.3.8. 



- Encyclopaedia Biitannica (Article on " Xew Guinea.") 



3 Proceedines, Royal Oeographical Society, 18S4, p. 196 



4 Purdy's " Oriental Navigator " p. 6S9 



