6 Ward, The earliest record of Filaria loa, 381 
tions have also been added. Here one finds for the first time the 
plate under discussion. Plate VI. „Quo modo incolae Armusij 
noctu in lintribus dormiant et de propinquis regum excaecandis.“ 
Some interesting facts appear from a study of the earliest 
edition which is written in Dutch and has 1596 as the date of 
publication. In „Dat 6. Capittel. Van’t Eylandt ende Stadt van 
Ormus,“ the text includes the same statements regarding blinding 
the eyes of the kings relation and later on concerning the plague 
of worms: but there is no plate corresponding to Pl. VI of the 
edition of 1599 and no illustration at all including any of the data 
of this chapter numbered sixth in this the original edition and 
eight in the edition of 1599. 
The corresponding edition in French is dated 1610 in the 
copy examined; in this in due order is „Ch. VI. Description de 
l'Isle et Cité d’Ormuz“ which is apparently an identical translation 
of the text of the Latin edition and noticeably shorter than the 
verbose form of the English edition. It has at page 18 an account 
of the custom of putting out the eyes of the king’s male relatives. 
At the bottom of page 21 is described the ,,Maladie de vers or- 
dinaire a Ormuz“ and the top half of page 22 contains the plate 
reproduced by Blanchard. It is not numbered but bears a title 
»Portrait de la maniére de crever les yeux aux parents du Roy 
en VIsle d’Ormuz, et d'autres choses remarques en ce Chapitre“. 
The plate bears in its lower left hand corner the arabic numeral 
„6“, which shows it to be probably the same plate as that used 
in the earlier Latin edition with which it also agrees in other 
details. This numeral is lacking from Blanchard’s copy so the 
latter may have been reproduced from another edition, but the 
two are identical otherwise and Blanchard quotes in his text the 
title as given above, while he also cites this edition without further 
comment in the bibliographic index of his paper. 
I saw also in Paris a reasonably identical German edition 
of 1598 which has this same chapter and plate. The latter bears 
the title „Wie die Inwohner in Ormus schlafen, und der König 
seiné Verwandten des Gesichts beraube“ The description of the 
terrible worms resembles closely the text of earlier editions, but 
adds just before the plate ,Seind aber zweiffels ohn ein sonder- 
bare Straff Gottes“. The identical plate is used also in another 
paper in the same volume: ,,Anhangs der Beschreibung des König- 
reichs Congo, Inhaltend Fünff Schiffarten Samuel Brauns. Ge» 
