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CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



" goodly oake " (On ere us rubra), "birch" {Bctula papyracea), "tall firre " (Strolms Americanus), 

 "and spruce " (A dies nigra). Having "sett upp a crosse with his majestie's inscription thereon " he 

 returned to England. 



" In this year" (Peyrere relat. du Groenl. 218), under instructions fro:n Christian IV. of Den- 

 mark, Gotske Lindenau sailing for Greenland. He brought back some of the natives, — and in the 

 following year, on a second voyage, brought back others; who remained some, years in Denmark. 

 Also "a Greenland calendar, composed of twenty-five or thirty little bones fastened to a strap of 

 sheepskin, which is not used by any but the original Greenlanders." 



"Nov. 5th" (Blair), in England, Gunpowder plot detected. — The celebration of this event, 

 brought into New England by the first colonists, was within my recollection kept up in Salem : and 

 may be regarded as the beginning of New England Tradition. 



" In this year" (Blochmann, and W. W. Hunter), Akbar succeeded by Jahangir, now emperor of 

 Hindustan. — In whose reign, arrival of the first British ambassador, Thomas Roe. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Clusius publishing his Exot., enumerating Protea nereifolia 38, Yucca 

 Draconis 48, Ranunculus amplexicaulis app. alt. exot., " indicum " 89. Polypodium quercifolium 

 and Clatlirus ruber app. alt. exot. 



Ornithegaliiiu nutans of Eastern Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. Termed "neapoli- 

 tanum " by Clusius app. alt. exot. — (Spreng.), observed by Jacquin pi. 301 in Austria, and known to 

 occur in Switzerland and Italy (Pers.) : observed " in 17S7 " on the ramparts of Copenhagen (fl. Dan. 

 pi. 912), "in 1808" in Britain (Engl. bot. pi. 1997) and has since become more frequent (Bab.), is 

 known to occur in Holland (prodr fl. bat. 273). and sparingly in central France (A. Dec.) ; was 

 observed by Koch here and there in Germany ; by Chaubard, in the Peloponnesus. 



Dorstenia Drakena of Eastern Mexico. An Urticaceous herb, transported to Europe, described 

 by Clusius exot. 83 — (Spreng.), Miller diet 3, and Linnaeus. Westward, grows wild on "high 

 ground near Vera Cruz," and its exported root constitutes a fourth kind of contrayerva (Houston 

 phil. trans. 421 pi. 195, Guibourt, and Lindl.). 



Dorstenia Houstoni of Central America. Known probablv as early as this date. — Transported 

 to Europe, is described by Miller diet. 2, and Linnaeus. Westward, grows wild on "high rocky 

 ground near Campeachy," and its exported root constitutes a fifth kind of lontrayerva (Houston phil. 

 trans. 421 pi. 195, Guibourt, and Lindl.). 



'' 1606, Jan 26th " (Leza, and Stanley append. De Moiga 403), Ouiros from Peru arriving in sight 

 of Anegada. a flat uninhabited islet about two leagues long, " in 25°" S. and "one thousand leagues 

 irom Callao." On the "29th," another uninhabited island without anchorage, Sin Puerto, was 

 reached, "in 24^° and 1075 leagues from Callao." "Feb. 4th and 5th," four islands were reached, 

 " three or four leagues apart " and "in 20 and 21 ." On the "9th," an islet "like those left behind" 

 was seen " in 19°, " and received the name of " Santa Polonia." On the " 10th," a flat island " in 18 

 10'," full of palm trees, with "people on the beach," armed with long lances (Paumotuans) ; two 

 Spaniards, swimming to the shore, met with a friendly reception, and in return a chief and an old 

 woman came off to the ship; they were "clothed and treated," but were " much frightened," and on 

 being set on shore, sent back a parting gift of "a bunch of hair and some poor feathers, and some 

 carved shells of pearl oysters," the "finery " of this "very wild people: the woman had "a small 

 white dog like ours ;" half of "a pulley ol cedar, wrought on the coast of Nicaragua or Peru," was 

 found on the island, and the chief's canoe was " not of mic piece of wood," but " as good as could 

 have been made in Castile " (probably the work of survivors from a Spanish shipwreck) : coasting 

 along on the " 12th," the island was found to be "twenty-five leagues long and ten broad, all the 

 middle is sunk, as though" "a piece of the sea surrounded by land" (Dean's Island). On the 

 " 13th," in " io>°," another island. ( >n the " 14th," an island " in if," found by De Leza to be " in 

 a straight line 139R leagues" from Callao. On the "21st," an island "in 10J ," understood to be 

 San Bernardo. Sailing thence W. and a quarter N. \V. " fully ten degrees," on " March 2d " a low 

 island, the people and arms " of the fashion of those we had left behind ; " the island received the 

 name of La Matanza, and on landing in spite of the opposition of the natives, " some little dags were 

 found in the village." 



Continuing on the same "parallel for thirty-two days," at the end of " 1940 leagues from the 

 city of Lima" a very high island called Taomaco ; the inhabitants "great seafarers, all well furnished 

 with beards " (Papuans), " great archers and throwers of javelins and very venturesome ; their boats, 

 which are very large, could go a great distance ; the\ gave us information of more than forty 

 islands, large and small, and all inhabited," "telling us that they fought with several of them ; " 

 information also " of the isle of Santa Cruz, and ol" that which happened there to " Mendaiia, and sent 

 a canoe there, a distance of "sixty leagues," to convey the news ; "there were amongst them white 

 people " (albinoes) "and others red, other native Indians of the colour of those of the Indies '" (Malay- 

 ans), "and others black, swarthy, and dusky," for they use captives as slaves for their tillage ; they 



