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Noronlia, not judging the season favourable for continuing liis 

 voyage, sent on immediately to India Pedro Mascarenhas. The 

 fifteen years which this captain passed in Asia were occuj)ied in 

 his governments or military enterprises, wh.ose success entaik-d 

 his designation as successor of Henri do Menezes to the govern- 

 ment of the Indies. He passed a second time through the Indian 

 Ocean to go to Portugal, and set sail from Cochin in the last days 

 of December 1527. 



Was it in this return voyage that Pedro Mascarenhas might 

 liave discovered our three islands? That is not probable, for ho 

 only arrived in Portugal at a date closely approximoting to that 

 of the publication of the mappa viundi of 1029, by Diego Riboro. 

 Moreover, this mappa viundi bears not only the name of 

 Mascarenhas, but, as well, that of another discoverer, Dornigo 

 Friz. This is an indication that these two names date in carto- 

 graphy from a previous epoch ; besides, there is on tliis mctpjxi 

 viundi a third name, Santa Appollonia, justified by a mappa 

 viundi of 1527 — carta universalis — preserved at ^Veimar, where is 

 to be found a copy in the Santarem Atlas, and upon which the 

 tln-ce islands bear the generic name of Santa Appollonia. 



Excluding, therefore, the year 1528, we are brougI»t back to 

 the first voyage of Mascarenhas in 1512. We have before noticed 

 on what account this captain was despatched from Mozambique to 

 India. In 1507 the fleets which left Portugal about the mcnith 

 of April would arrive at Mozambique in the month of September, 

 at the time when the contrary monsoon was just commencing. 

 First and foremost, Ruy Soares, Commander of Rhodes, was sent to 

 India in a ship commanded by Pero Quarcsma. Ruy Soares took 

 his course towards the north close up to Cape Guardafui ; from 

 thence he crossed the Indian Ocean, and was driven by stress of 

 weather to Cape Comorin. It is impossible to suppose that, 

 judging from his point of departure (Cape Guardafui), the bad 

 weather had conducted him into the neighbourhood of our 

 islands. 



Pedro Mascarenhas, having a similar mission to accomplish, 

 could not, without doubt, on account of the contrary monsoon, 

 }»rocecd north, and he tried, by a chance navigation, a course in 



