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DAHLGREN. THE DJSCOVERY OF THE HAWA1IAN ISLANDS. 



which is more to the west than on other contemporary European maps, possibly points to 

 Spanish influence. It is to be noticed that Dampier, who gives a brief account of the 

 course of the Manila galleons, 1 does not mention these islands or any other Spanish 

 landfall in that part of the Ocean. 



It is scarcely probable that Dampier brought home from his voyage round the world 

 any Spanish chart; he tells us that when, in January 1691, he escaped f rom Bencoolen in 

 Sumatra, he saved his journal "and most of his written papers", but, he adds, "some 



20. Part of the Eastern Hemisphere by Guillaume Delisle, 1724. 



papers and books of value I left in haste, and all my furniture". It is perliaps not im- 

 probable, on the other hand, that such a chart came to England with Cowley; and possibly 

 some trace of that can be seen in a manuscript chart (Fig. 19) showing Cowley' s 

 course, which was drawn in 1687 by William Hacke. 2 An examination of this shows, 



1719 (in Mercator's projection) the Les Monges gronp is not marked; nor is it to be found on the same 

 author's "Map of the Coast, Countries and Islands within the Limits of the South Sea Company". 



1 Dampier's Voyages, ed. by John Masefield, I, Lond. 1906. p. 261. 



2 The chart is annexed to a manuscript in the British Museum, with the title "Description of the 

 Navigable Parts of the World" (Add. MS. 5414, art. 6). 



