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S.E. The N.W. end is in latitude 8" 10' N., and tlie S.E. end is in latitude 7° 46' N. 

 Captain Bond ranged along the coasts of above 20 small islands. At the N.W. end and 

 solated from the rest are two small islands about three miles apart. On comparing this 

 <lescrii)tion with that given by Gallego, the reader will have little doubt as to the identity 

 of the Musquillo Islands with the Spanish discovery. It is probable that Gallego con- 

 sidered this discovery to be near the position of an island discovered in 153G in 14 " N lat. 

 by Toribio Alonzo de Salazar,i 328 Spanish leagues from the Mariana Islands, and named 

 by him San Lartolomeo. This discovery of Salazar is marked in Krusenstern's General 

 Atlas of the Pacific. 



NOTE XIII. (Page 239.) 



The Isle of S.\N Fkancisco.— Wake's Island, with which I have identified the Isle of 

 San Francisco, was discovered in 179G by the "Prince William Henry." Commodore 

 Wilkes, who fixed its position in 1840 (lat. 19' 10' 54'^ N. ; long 1G6°31' 30" E. of G), thus 

 ■describes it. "Wake's Island is a low coral one, of triangular form and eight feet above 

 the surface. It has a large lagoon in the centre, which was well filled with fish of a 

 variety of species ; amongst these were some fine mullet. There is no fresh water on the 

 island, and neitlier pandanus nor cocoa-nut tree. It has ujibn it the shrubs, which are 

 usually found on the low Islands of the I'acific, the most abundant of which was 

 Tournefortia. The short-tailed albatross is found here ; birds quite tame though not as 

 numerous as in other uninhabited islands. The appearance of the coral blocks and 

 vegetation leads to this conclusion that the island is at times submerged or that at times 

 the sea makes a complete breach over it.''- Wake's Island is about the size of the island 

 described by Gallego. Its latitude^ its isolated position, and the close agreement of Wilkes' 

 description with that of Gallego, leave no room to doubt that Wake's Island and the Isle 

 of San Francisco are one and the same . . . Burney refers to a small island named San 

 Francisco which is placed in the chart of the Galleon in Anson's voyage in lat. 192 north and 

 -84° east of the Strait of San Bernardino ; but he ad Is that it is too far to the east to be 

 deutified with the island discovered by Mendaua.^ 



NOTE XIV. (Page 251.) 

 The List of Islands in the Vicixitt of Taumaco which was obtained by Quiros in 

 KiOG FROif ONE OF the NATIVES. — They are as follows, Chicayana, Guantopo, or Guaytopo, 

 Taucalo, Pilen, Nupan, Pupam, Fonfono or Fonofono, Mecaraylay, Manicolo, Tucojna, 

 Pouro. More than half of these islands can be identified with certainty, even after an 

 interval of nearly three centuries. 



Chicayana may be without a doubt identified with Sikyana or Sikai-ana, the present 

 native name of the Stewart Isles which lie about 250 miles to the north-west of Taumaco, 

 or as the Taumaco people reckoned, four days' sail in tlieir large canoes. In fact, the 

 native from whom Quiros obtained his information was originally from Chicayana, having 

 been carried by contrary winds to Taumaco whilst endeavouring with a number of his 

 fellow-islanders to reach the island of Mecaraylay. The Chicayana natives were described 

 to Quiros as being very fair watli long loose 7-ed hair, some, however, being darker like 

 niulattocs, but with hair neither curled nor quite straight. They possess much the same 

 characters at the present day.'' 



• Guaytopo or Guantopo was^'a larger island than those of Taumaco and Chicayana. 

 Since it is placed three days' sail (native reckoning) from Taumaco and two days from 

 Chicayana, it may have been one of the eastern islands of the Solomon Group. The iu- 



1 Krusenstern's " Menroires llydrograiihiriues," St Petersbnrgli, IS^T : Part II, p. 49. 



2 "Narrative of the United States Exploring Exiiefiition," vol V. p. 2G7. 

 .-! " Chronol. Historv of Vov. and Disc. " vol I. p. 291. 



■t These islands, as far as is known, were not visited by Europeans until nearly two centuries after 

 ths visit of Quiros, when Captain Hunter came upon them in 179'.. 



