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1630 in almost the same terms as Grijalva;' and perhaps it is only a transcript of it that 

 is cited in 1636 in a "Memoria de los autores que babian de las Californias", 2 with the 

 title "La carta de marear que hizo un religioso agustino para S. M., habiendo por su orden 

 demarcado parte de las Californias é islas Filipinas ano de 1577". We must therefore 

 deeply regret that neither Urdaneta's chart nor any chart by any of his immediate 

 successors 3 has been preserved to our time. 



Some features from Urdaneta's chart, however, have undoubtedly passed to Plancius 

 through some Portuguese intermediary — it has already been said that the Tsla de Paxaros, 



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18. Part of Antonio Herreras General chart of the Pacific Ocean, 1601. 



which appears in Plancius, is a discovery of Urdaneta\s (p. 163), and that Isla de San 

 Pedro (p. 36, note 2) received its name during Legazpi's expedition, which was under the 



1 Historia de la Orden de S. Agustin de estas islas Filipinas. The work was not printed till 1893. 

 at Manila; there is a translation in Bl. & Rob. XXIII, p. 179. 



2 Appendix to "Declaracion que hicieron en 17 de setiembre 1636 D. Alonso Botello y Serrano y 1). 

 Pedro Porter y Casanate de las conveniencias del servicio de S. M. y publicas que se seguirian de descubrir 

 como se comunica por la California el mar del Sur con el del Norte" (Gol. de doc. ined. para la historia de 

 Espam, T. XV, 1849, p. 225). 



3 In the above-mentioned "Memoria'' of 1630 there is cited a "Carta de marear de las Filipinas y 

 Californias que hizo Pedro de Vera en Manila'". Pedro de Vera is known as the author of a map of Formosa, 

 dated in 1626, and reproduced in Bolctin de la Sociedad Geografica de Madrid, Februarv 1882: and in Bl. 

 & Rob. XXIV, p. 150. 



1 This chart is reproduced in full. on a reduced scale. in Nordenskiöld. Periplus, Fig. 93. 



