4 Ward, The earliest record of Filaria loa. 379 
under the title: Mémoire bibliographique sur les journaux des 
navigateurs Néerlandais. 
On page 3 he lists De Bry’s ,,Petits Voyages en Orient 
1598--1628“ as follows: 
I. Description du pays de Congo par Ed. Lopez. 
Voyages aux côtes de l’Afrique par Sam. Braun. 
II. Voyage en Orient de Jan Huygen van Linschoten. I° partie. 
III Méme voyage, 2° partie. 
Premier voyage des Hollandais en Orient, sous C. Houtman. 
Description de trois voyages au Nord, par Ger. de Veer. 
IV. Voyages en Orient de Linschoten, 3° partie, etc. 
On page 83 he adds a detailed description under ,,B. Col- 
lection des Petits Voyages de de Bry. 1. Voyages en Orient de 
Jan Huygen van Linschoten.“ The plates are listed under letters 
a, b, c, d, etc., and the bibliographer notes especially that they 
lack numerals. The plate under consideration is not listed among 
those found in this work; it should be noted, moreover, that it 
bears a number (6) and has no evidence of a letter anywhere on 
its surface. 
The edition of the De Brys work, bound under the title ,,India 
orientalis* which I first secured in London, bore the following 
title page: 
Pigafetta, Philippum. Regnum / Congo / hoc est. Vera 
descri/ptio regni afri/cani, quod tam ab in/colis quam lusitanis / 
Congus appellatur. / Per / Philippum Pigafettam, / olim ex Edoardi 
Lopez acroamatis / lingua Italica excerpta; nunc Latio / sermone 
donata ab / Avgvst. Cassiod. Reinio. / Iconibus et imaginibus rerum 
memorabilium quasi / viuis, opera et industria Ioan. Theodor. et 
Ioan, / Israelis de Bry fratrum, etc. exornata. / Francofvrti / 
Excudebat Volffgangus Richter, impen/sis lo. Theo. & Io. Israel. 
desbry, trata ,M. D =XCVIEL 
Ihis work I examined in detail and with great care; there 
is in the text no mention whatever of worms and no plate such 
as has been cited and copied. The work has an appendix with 
the following title: 
„Lcones quibus ad maiorem lectoris recreationem primus 
Lusitanorum cum rege congressus, incolarum arma et instrumenta 
bellica, vestes tam foemineze quam viriles, & aliquorum animalium 
forme, quasi ad vivum proponuntur. 
In es incise per Johannem Theodorum et Johannem Israelem 
