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however, that it scarcely exhibits any feature that is not found in contemporary maps of 

 European origin. But it must not be ignored, for this chart too has been adduced as 

 evidence of the Spanish discovery of Hawaii. We here see Los Mauges, La Vezian, and 

 La des Grädda in their traditional position — except that their being placed farther to- 

 wards the west in their relation to Calif ornia exhibits some slight divergence. It is main- 

 tained, however, in an artide by Edward A. Petherick, with the title "Discovery of 

 the Hawaiian Islands in 1542", l that this position is an "additional evidence bearing upon 



21. Part of the Western Hemisphere by Guillaume Delisle, 1724. - 



the discovery prior to that of Cook". No one who has followed the preceding examination 

 of the cartographical history of these islands will need to maintain with Mr. Petherick 

 that it is anything surprising to find this group on "an English chart nearly sixty years 

 before Anson made his voyage and ninety anterior to that of Cook". 



Yet another foreign invasion of the Pacific took place at the beginning of the 

 eighteenth century. It was not directly hostile to the Spaniards, but it was none the 



1 In the Athenaeum, March 23, 1901. 



2 This map and the preceding are reproduced in full by Christian Sandler (Die Reformation der Karto- 

 graphie um 1700, Tab. VI) from a reprint by Ph. Buache in 1745. 



