. The voyages made by the sieur to the islands Dauphine or Madagascar & Bourbon or Mascarenne in the years, 1669, 70, 71 & 72 . f the Pearle (a ship I meane): some saythe errant Portugall first saw it, and by Seignior Mascarenas from his ownename was denominated; yet other-some go further and call it Pulo-puar, anIndian name, but by whom or when, darkly writ in the mistique Character ofOblivion.—Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great, etc. ByTho. Herbert, Esqre. Lib. 3, p. 351. London, 1638. 2 Strickland quotes from an edition, published at Amsterdam by GillisJoosten Zaagman c
. The voyages made by the sieur to the islands Dauphine or Madagascar & Bourbon or Mascarenne in the years, 1669, 70, 71 & 72 . f the Pearle (a ship I meane): some saythe errant Portugall first saw it, and by Seignior Mascarenas from his ownename was denominated; yet other-some go further and call it Pulo-puar, anIndian name, but by whom or when, darkly writ in the mistique Character ofOblivion.—Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great, etc. ByTho. Herbert, Esqre. Lib. 3, p. 351. London, 1638. 2 Strickland quotes from an edition, published at Amsterdam by GillisJoosten Zaagman circa 1670, which contains a quaint figure of the facsimile of this engraving is here given, photographed from the copyof this version in possession of Professor Newton, p. 7. 3 In the original, this paragraph reads:—Daer waren oock eenige Dod-eersen | die kleyne vleugels hadden | maer konden niet vliegen | waren so vetdatse qualijck gaen konden | want als sy liepen | sleepte haer de neers byna langs de Aerde. These words have been literally translated, as above, byMr. J. H. Hessels, of Cambridge. Introduction XXV. £ u u was £**•>. &>= a « =. *— *-» M V^ j-» t* w erj*
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