5^ A PKELIMINAKY CEITIQUE OF THE TERRA AUSTEALIS LEGEND. 



of New Guinea : — " Hanc continentem australem nonulli 

 Magellanicjl regionem ab inventore eius nuncupant." 

 , From the facts that the coast-line so described is in the 

 map of Dourado disconnected by an intervening scale of 

 latitude from the rest of the map, and that it bears some of 

 the same names as were bestowed by Magellan on places 

 visited by him in South America, Mr. Major supposes that 

 it is " a memorandum or cartographical side-note of the real 

 discovery by Magellan of Terra del Fuego." Terra Australis, 

 p. xxvi. The position of this coast on Dourado's map may 

 have led to its being confounded with the north coast of 

 New Guinea by Mercator, who adopts some of Dourado's 

 coast names ; but transfers them to the above-mentioned 

 island. Amongst these are C. de las Virgenes, and C. del 

 buen Deseo equivalent to Cabo Deseado, Magellan's names for 

 the capes at the entrance and exit of the Straits. Some of 

 the names used on the coasts of Jave la Grande much 

 resemble others in the atlas of Dourado, and on a map 

 by De Jode, entitled Brasilia et Peruvia, but they are 

 placed by these cartographers in or near the Straits of 

 Magellan. Such are Baia Fremosa in Dourado and De Jode, 

 corresponding to C. Fromose in the Dauphin map, and in De 

 Jode, C. Blanco corresponding to Coste Bracq, C. de las 

 Baixas to Baye Bassa, B. d muchas islas to E. de Beaucoup 

 Disles, and Costa dos Ilheos to Baye des Ts. This parallelism 

 is suggestive of a community of origin, and raises the 

 question whether the voyage of Magellan may not in some 

 degree have contributed to originate the MS. charts of Jave 

 l!a Grande, 



• It has been recently upheld by Mr. Petherick that Del 

 Gano on his return voyage in 1522, sighted some part of the 

 west Australian coast. (Athenceum, May 24, 1884) This 

 opinion is based on a passage in Galvano's Discoveries of the 

 World, to the effect that that navigator, discovered certain 

 islands one hundred leagues beyond Timor and. tinder the 

 tropic of Capricorn, and further on others, all peopled thence- 

 forward, when he was shaping a course which should carry 

 him well south of the .Cape of Good Hope. It is not 

 impossible that in a zig-zag course Del Cano may have sighted 

 some islands very near the Australian mainland. 



