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DAHLGREN, THE DISCOVERY OP THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



foimded solely on the words of the discoverer, which had been partly misimderstood, and 

 not on any map drawn up by him. 



But Ortelius' map also shows another group of islands, which is of greater interest 

 to us. Immediately south of 20° lat., there lie a number of islands, of which the northern- 

 most, a group of small islands or rocks, are called Los maugés (evidently by mistake for 

 Monges), the two others La Vezina and La desgrasiada. We thus find here two of the 

 names which afteiwards appear in the archipelago marked on the Anson chart — and 

 that the third name, La Vezina, also belongs here shall be shown låter. I do not hesitate 

 to declare that we have here before us the first origin of the islands which have since been 



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7. Typns Orbis Terranim by Abraham Ortelius, 1570. 1 



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identified with the Hawaiian Islands. It is evident, however, that it is not these last that 

 Ortelius drew: there cannot be the least doubt that what he represents stånds for the 

 northernmost amongst the Ladrones — which is shown by the position of the islands, due 

 south of Japan, and north-east of the reef Abroio, and is further proved by the fact that, 

 on the map of the world published by Ortelius in the same year (Typus Orbis Terrarum: 

 Fig. 7 ), there occurs a group of islands with the name Bestinga di ladrones, which in relation 

 to the islands discovered by Bernardo de la Torre, occupy the same place as Los Monges, 

 La Vezina and la Desgraciada on Ortelius' map of Asia. 



If we now try to find the origin of these islands, I think that there can be no doubt 



1 For full faosimile see Nordenskiöld, Faeshnile-Atlas. Tal). XLYI. 



