420 Geographical Notices. 
They also enlighten and increase our knowledge in relation to 
the discoveries in America generally. In these charts we also 
have original records for the history of the voyages of the sepa- 
rate nations. They commence with the voyages of the Italians, 
who first set out independently, then in the service of Portugal, 
Spain and England, leaving us those grand drawings of the 
bagi which were continued and finished by other nations. 
hese accordingly preceded the systematic descriptions of the 
world, which furnished us with but poor and scanty information 
in regard to the discovery of America, although the charts had 
already presented an almost complete picture of what was then 
known.” Of the thirteen sheets of the atlas the first five relate 
King Emanuel of Portugal,) two Reinels, father and son, omit- 
ting however their christian names. ‘I saw, he says, the Moluc- 
Bay, i given by 
the Venetian ambassador Pasqualigo, (October 19, 1501) on the 
second voyage of Caspar Cortereal in the year 1501, from which 
bon bate Caraveles with 
sixty natives, without Cortereal, returned. 
