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DAHLGREN, THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



seventeenth century — and, on that account, to set on foot minute investigations, can 

 only be justified if they could be carried out without waste of time and without the neglect 

 of more important objects." 1 



The investigations that Krusenstern undertook with these aims in view, however, 

 all had a completely negative result. During his voyage from Hawaii to Kamchatka, 

 he sought in vain, in July 1804 in 36° N. lat., for Buache's land; 2 in September of the same 

 year he ascertained the non-existence of the islands that the Anson chart places east and 

 south-east of Japan — Islas del Aho 1664, Volcano, Bayro, and Peha de los Picos. The 

 islands which the same chart marks, with incorrect dates, as "Islas Nuevas del aho de 

 1716", he passed at such a great distance that he could not say anything definite about 



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26. Part of the Western Hemisphere, engraved by J. M. Schmidt, Niirnberg 1784. 



them. 3 In October 1805, on his way back from Japan, he had intended to search for 

 Guadalupe, Malabrigo, San Juan and other islands in these regions that had been carried 

 över from the Anson chart to låter charts; but he found only the islands discovered by 

 Gore and King, Sulphur, North and South Islands, in which he correctly recognized the San 

 Alessandro, Farallon, and San Agustin of the Spanish charts, i. e. the Volcano Islands. 4 



1 Krusenstern, Eeise um die Wclt . . . anf den Schiffen Nadcshda und Nciva, II, St.-Petersb. 1811, 

 p. 273 et sequ. 



2 Op. ät., I, p. 224. 



3 Op. ät., I, p. 240. Cf. above, p. 186. 



4 Op. ät., II, p. 287. 



