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what island on the south coast of the Colony best agrees with the 

 description given in Barros. For the description of the island of 

 St. Croix, and for the suggestion of the doubt of its identification with 

 the Ihleo da Santa Cruz of Diaz I am indebted to a note kindly com- 

 municated to me by the Eev. J. A. Hewitt, of Port Elizabeth, but so 

 far I am unable to suggest any alternative island better fitting the 

 facts as recorded in history. 



IV. — Eecapitulation of the Pillars marking the discovery of 

 the Portuguese Navigators at the end of the Fifteenth 

 Century. 



1. Pillar of St. George. 



First pillar erected by Diogo Cao on his first voyage in Lat. 6° S. 

 at Shark's Point, just south of the mouth of the Congo in 1482. Two 

 fragments of this pillar are in the Geographical Museum at Lisbon. 



2. Pillar of St. Augustine. 

 Second pillar erected by Diogo Cao on his first voyage in Lat. 13° 

 27' S., just south of Benguela in Angola in 1482. This pillar is now 

 preserved in the Geographical Museum at Lisbon. 



3. Pillar of Cape Negro. 



First pillar erected by Diogo Cao on his second voyage in Lat. 15° 

 40' S., just south of Mossamedes in Angola in 1485. This pillar 

 is also preserved in the Museum at Lisbon. 



4. Pillar of Cape Cross. 



Second pillar erected by Diogo Cao on his second voyage in Lat. 

 22° S., north of Walfisch Bay, in 1485, marking his extreme southern 

 point. This pillar is preserved in the Marine Academy at Kiel, and 

 a reproduction of it has been placed by the Emperor of Germany on 

 its original situation. 



5. Pillar of Sao Thiago. 



First pillar erected by Bartholomew Diaz at Pedestal Point in 

 Lat. 27° S. in 1487. One fragment of this is now in the South African 

 Museum, two fragments in the Geographical Museum at Lisbon. 



