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confer with Joao Serrao, was driven by bad weather to Mozam- 

 bique. We can ehminate the year 1509, when, on the 10th March, 

 there departed from Lisbon the fleet commanded by the Marshal 

 Don Fernando Coutinho, who had a mission to put an end to the 

 divisions existing between Alfonso d'Albaqnerque and the Viceroy 

 Francois d'Almeida, who dechned to resign his government. We 

 are thus brought to this conclusion : that the islands about which 

 we are discussing were discovered under the government of the 

 Viceroy Francois d'Almeida. 



We take notice of three circumstances when the Portuguese 

 ships could, by the date of their voyage, satisfy the conditions of 

 finding themselves in the neighbourhood of our islands, in the 

 month of February, or in having traversed the Indian Ocean by 

 the eastward of Madagascar. 



The three circumstances are as follows. First, Diego Lopez de 

 Siqueira sailed from Lisbon the 5th April 1508, and arrived at 

 Madagascar on the 4th August. He employed the end of the 

 year in examining the east coast, and set sail for India, anchoring 

 at Cochin on the 20th April 1509. 



Barros states that this captain did not arrive at Cochin direct, 

 but by way of Cape Comorin, and he adds that he only reached 

 this cape with much trouble. It is, therefore, evident that Diego 

 Lopez, not being able, on account of the north-east monsoon, to 

 reach India by the north of ]\lad;xgascar, directed his course more 

 directly from Madagascar to Cape Comorin, and thus made from 

 west to east a course similar to that which, in Januaiy 1506, 

 Fernand Soares had made from east to west. Lopez de Castanheda 

 says that Diego Lopez, on leaving the island of Saint-Lawrence, 

 took his course towards the island of Ceylon. 



In this route Diego Lopez could have met with our three 

 islands; meantime^ his name is borne on the charts of the 

 sixteenth century, under the corruptions, Don Galopes and don 

 Galope, which are seen on the maps of Mercator, of Ortelius, of 

 Petrus Plaucius, and on that appended to the India Orientalis of 

 de Bry, and only applying to the island of Rodriguez; so we 

 t'onclude that Diego Lopez really discovered only the island of 

 liudrigucz. Perhaps, indeed, he saw it again or discovered it on 



