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same year at Paris by Mr. Inselin. 1 This map had come into existence in this way: so me 

 wind-driven natives, who had come to the Philippine island of Samar, in order to give an 

 idea of the islands where their home was, had arranged on a table a number of small stones 

 and orally given to each island thus indicated its name, size, and distance in day's journeys 

 to the other islands. It was undoubtedly the Pelew group which in this f ashion first became 

 known to the Spaniards. These islands, which in the map published at Paris are called 

 Nouvelles Philippines, were during the period immediately following the object of a nnmber 

 of Spanish exploring expeditions owing to the zeal aroused in Europé for the conversion 

 of their inhabitants. The first of these expeditions (1709) seems not to ha ve reached its 

 goal, to judge by a map 2 which, so far as I know, is the only document in which this 

 voyage is mentioned: it shows no new discoveries and, so far as the Caroline Archipelago 

 is concerned, is a mere compilation from older charts. During a fresh expedition, in 1710, 

 the San Andres Islands included in the Stockholm chart were discovered and named — 

 which are now marked on modern maps by the native name of Sonsorol, — and from the 

 following voyage, in 1712, equipped to fetch away two Jesuit fathers left on these islands, 

 is derived the name of Los Garbanzos — »the chick-peas» — a name which was given either 

 because the small islands can be compared to a handful of scattered peas, or because the 

 first map of these islands came into existence in the manner mentioned above, by laying 

 out peas or beans upon a table. 3 From the expedition of 1710, which was commanded by 

 Don Francisco Padilla, we still possess a chart drawn by the pilot Don Joseph Somera, 4 

 which shows a very close resemblance to the Stockholm chart. During the expedition of 

 1712, which was made under the command of Don Bernardo de Egtji, there was made 

 out a derrotero, which is cited as the source for the discovery and naming of the Garbanzos 

 Islands. 5 These last-named islands correspond to the group of small coral islands which 

 are called Uluthi in modern maps, and which belong to the Western Carolines. These 



1 Printed in Lettres édifiantes, VI recueil, 1705. — Don Cesakeo Fernandez Duro (Armada Espafiolu, 

 VI, 1900, p. 491) cites a number of Spanish prints about the discovery in question. 



2 This map, appended in facsimile to Colin, Labor Evangelica, III, p. 804, has the title "Mapa del 

 mar Pacifico, corregido por el Capitau D. Luis de Acosta, Piloto mayor del Patache nombrado La Santisima 

 Trinidad, Nuestra Sefiora de los Dolores y San Francisco Xavier, durante el viaje, que hizo para el descubri- 

 miento de las islas Palaos o de Pais (2 de Abril — 7 de Octubre, 1709)." It seems to be copied from a 

 chart of the Pacific, the westernmost part of which it embraces. The occurrence of Rica de Oro and Rica de 

 Platå and other islands shows that it belongs to the same type as the Anson chart, of which type it is the 

 oldest known representative — if the year 1709 is correct. 



3 Burney's assumption {op. cit., V, p. 25) that the name is derived from the fact that chick-peas grow 

 on the islands is incorrect. 



4 Printed in Lettres édifiantes, XI recueil, 1715. Manuscript copies of this map are to be found both 

 in Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele at Rome, and in Archivo de Indias at Seville; see facsimiles in Bl. & Rob. 

 XLI, p. 52, and LII, p. 346. There is a description of the voyage in Archivo de Indias (Est. 68. Caj. 5. 

 Leg. 29, Vol. 3) with the title "Diario del viage del descubrimiento de las islas Palaos con el patache la 

 Sanctissima Trinidad, y por nombre las Nuevas Philipinas, siendo cavo superior el sargente maior D. Franc de 

 Padilla . . . Piloto maior D. Joseph Somera." 



5 In an examination of witnesses which was held at Manila in July 1731 concerning the discovery of 

 the islands, Father Victor Walter, who took part in it, mentioned "las islas que en el ultimo derrotero del 

 Capitan D. Bernardo de Egui se nombran Garbanzos, entré los cuales esta la Carolina, y que dicho derrotero 

 es del afio 1712" . . . (Bol. de la Soc. geogr. de 3Iadrid, X, 1881, p. 273). There is a description of the 

 voyage in Archivo de Indias (Est. 68. Caj. 5. Leg. 29, Vol. 4) with the title "Diario que yo Don Bernardo de 

 Egui y Labalaga piloto maior del patache nombrado S° Domingo de Guzman hago . . . para las Marianas . . . 

 y la torna viaje a reconocer las islas de Panlos y San Andres." 



