Complex sentence: This map and the letter caused a vast interest in the new islands and resulted in the first and failed Jesuit attempts to travel to Palau from the Philippines in 1700,1708 and 1709.
Split into simpler sentences: This map and the letter caused a vast interest in the new islands. The letters resulted in the first and failed Jesuit attempts to travel to Palau from the Philippines in 1700,1708 and 1709.