Contents. 



CHAPTER I. 



Page 



Cook"s Discovery and the Disputes as to its Priority 3 



CHAPTER 11. 

 Examination of thc Hypothesis of the Spanish Discovery. The older Voyages in the Pacific Ocean ... 21 



CHAPTER III. 

 The Voyages of the Spanish Galleons down to 1609 40 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Sailing-Directions and other written information about the Pacific Ocean in the Sixteenth Century .... 59 



CHAPTER V. 

 The Fabulous Islands: Isla del Armenio, Rica de Oro, and Rica de Platå 65 



CHAPTER VI. 



The Voyages of the Spanish Galleons during the Seventeenth Century 80 



CHAPTER VII. 

 The Voyages of the Spanish Galleons during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century 103 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 Sailing-Directions for the Pacific Ocean from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 128 



CHAPTER IX. 



Traditions as to the Visits of Europeans to Hawaii: Supposed Traces of their Intluence there 139 



CHAPTER X. 

 The Cartographical Evidences. A. Maps printed in Europé 151 



CH/VPTER XI. 

 The Cartographical Evidences. B. The Spanish Charts of the Pacific Ocean 174 



CHAPTER XII. 



The Intluence of the Older Maps on låter Exploration. Conclusion 197 



Index 214 





Tryckt den 8 februari 1917. 

 Uppsala 1917. Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-A.-B. 





