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west. 1 Another result of this was that Los Monges and La Desgraciada — Hakluyt marks 

 the intermediate La Vecina as an island without a name — still on account of their 

 snpposed position in relation to Cape Engano, had to be shifted another 25 degrees 

 further towards the east. Yet another consequence of this transference was that La 

 Desgraciada reached a distance of scarcely 10 degrees from Roca Partida, the westernmost 

 of what is now known as the Revilla Gigedo Archipelago, 2 and with a position relative 

 to that island which was retained in a long series of maps down to the Anson chart, where 

 the distance was diminished to 5 1 j 2 degrees. As a matter of f act, the Revilla Gigedo group 



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12. Part of the so-called Wright-Hakluyt Map. From "The Principal Navigations" by Richard Hakluyt, 1599: 



has undergone a move similar to that of the Los Monges group, but in an opposite direction 

 — i. e. from east to west. 



Before we leave Plancius' map, it ought to be observed that it was this map that 

 marked for the first time some other islands that are not met with on any earlier map. 

 Thus north of the Ladrones we see, in 22° lat., an island De Sierta (Desierta, "the uninha- 



1 In one of the inscriptions on bis map Hakluyt says, "that the distance betweene cape Mendocino and 

 cape California, which niaiiy maps and seacharts make to be 1200 or 1300 leagues, is scarce so mucli as 600". 



2 The name Roca Partida does not occur in Hakluyt; but the island is to be fouud there, together with 

 the others belonging to the same group, S. Thomas and La Anublada. The whole group, which had previously 

 lacked a comnion name, received its name in 1793 from Captain James Colnett as an expression of gratitude 

 to the Viceroy of Mexico, Don Juan Vicente de Guemes Pacheco de Padilla, Conde de Revilla Gigedo. 



3 This map is reproduced at full size in Nordenskiöld, Facsimile- Atlas, Tab. L. 



