Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-22

s three TO five islands, one of which is
called Lanieli or Laniem, the other
! La Farfana,, and the remaining one or
ones. collectively Los Bolcanos.
The second grehpt is composed Of
! the islands Los Monges, La Vezina
and La Desgraniada. rus <tst..-s....
"A list chronologically arranged of
maps bearing either of both of these
/ groups indicating the names, number
and geographical position of the ISL
ands, will be printed with this article
: in the next REPORT of the Hawaiian
Historical Seciety:- 49,: =.
As to the Mans. .=...s T.. r..
| shall nov make a few remarks. on
the more ff1Rresting OF these maps.
FIrstxin order comes the 1541 globe
of Mercator. 1t may perhaps be called
! the first modern map of the world. 1t
/ has no islands in the northern Pacific
which could possibly be identified with
the ones we are interested IN.
/ In the following year, 1912, Alonzo
! da Santa Cruz, archicOsmOgrapher to
| Charles V. who had every opportunity
! to know all about the discoveries
made by the Spaniards, published an
| atlas, entitled "A True and Complete
| Description of the Whole World" On
his maps the. broad eXpanse of the Pa
cific is only Interrupted by the island
Of San Pablo, the Tiburiones, the La
| droneS and the islas de los Pintados.
The Thesaurus Geographicus of
| Abraham Ortelius 1546). a ge0graph-
tical dictionary, which claims to con-
/ tain the names of all the earths
countries, mountains, islands, harbOrS
and towns" makes no mention of any
of the islands belonging to the groups
above alluded tO-a presumption that
they had not yet been discovered. 49,.
! They appear for the first time on
the famous chart of MerCatOr: Nova
let aucta Cribs Descriptio, 1869. ian
outline Of which may be seen in the
| Encyclopedia Britannica, 1888, under
the heading Maps as a group of four
small iSlets called Los BOlcanOS,
grouped in the form of a cross lying
about the Tropic of Cancer. and big
| ger island called La Farfana,' which
is at 81 degrees north latitude and 176
degrees west longitude from Green
! wich. tAll longitudes in this paper
have been calculated from the merid-
| ian of GreenwichD
| Must Be Hawaii. "
have no doubt but that this group
must be identified with the Hawaiian
1 archipelago for the simple reason that
! the name indicates islands showing
volcanic ACTIVITY, and there ere no ISL
ands besides Hawaii having active
! volcanoes m the northeastern part Of
this ocean. The Aleutian islands are
| too far north and cannot be meant. as
! the SpaniaFdS never went any further
north than the fourth degree. The lat
itude. moreover. which those cary
navigators could calculate at least
/ with an approach to eXactitude. CORE
I spends to that OF our islands. There
| is indeed a difference in longitude OF
some twenty-One degrees, but We know
that the mariner Of the sixteenth and
Seventeenth centuries had scarcely
! anything better to determine lis lon
! gitude than 2 rough. unassisted esti-
innate OF his progress made through the
! water, making allowance for the Ell
! feCts of winds and currents. ..."
! In tue year -" there appeared the
first edition of tuo famous atlas of
Abraham OrteliuS entitled Theatrum
! OTbiS Terrarum. which has seen. a
great many subsequent editions in
| eitheF Latin. Dutch or Italian. In tie
| preface TO the first edition the author
says: 1t has been our foremost
| thought to represent TO the reader
/ whatsoever he could find, or even now