412 L. HARGRAVE. 



LOPE DE VEGA. 1 

 By L. Hargrave. 



[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, December 1, 1909.] 



The paper that was read here on June 2 has brought to 

 light so many facts and incidents tliat circumstantially 

 supply missing links in the voyage of the " Santa Isabel," 

 that no excuse is needed for again touching on the fate of 

 Lope de Vega. 



East of the figure of a kangaroo on Woollahra Point, there 

 is a rounded rock with many carvings. By permission of 

 the owner of the property on which this rock is situated, 

 I cleaned a number of boat-shaped marks and found also 

 the numerals 46 with two letters R e & little west of the 

 numerals; much of the rock is still covered by a flower bed. 

 I noticed in Mr. Oollingridge's book that the old charts 

 there shown have fish and ships on the parts that represent 

 water, and the land is distinguished by sketches of animals, 

 men, and houses. Armed with this knowledge and a com- 

 pass, I had another look at the rock and easily recognised 

 a track chart cut in the stone. My reading of it is, that 

 it represents the track of a ship in the Tasman Sea from 

 the point where she made the land to the time she entered 

 Sydney Harbour. It appears that she sailed south more 

 than twenty days, then north closer in shore and then west. 

 This of course meant a lengthened sojourn here, and at 

 once scattered any lingering ideas I may have had that our 

 poor blacks had ever cut a rock in mimicry of a Peruvian 

 miner, or for any other reason. 



If we attribute all this stone cutting to the industry and 

 religious zeal of the immediate ancestors of the people 



1 Continued from a paper in this Journal Vol. xlii, pt. 1, p. 39. 



