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 186 BUSS ISLAND AND OTHERS There are still other islands mostly north of the latitude of Bermuda and between it and the Azores or northeastern America, but far at sea, of which one can make little, except as probably complimenting some pilot, skipper, or other individual, or com- memorating some incident which has nevertheless been generally forgotten. Thus Negra's Rock, which has hardly ceased to appear on the maps, does not really exist but may keep us in mind, by its rather sinister and mythical sound, that a certain Captain Negra once thought he saw something solid in the great liquid and re- ported accordingly. Of such origin, perhaps, are I. de Garcia, Y Neufre, Y d'Hyanestienne, Lasciennes, and divers others scat- tered over various maps and offering no promise of reward for hunting down their pedigrees or history. All these distinctly post- Columbian islands are quite too recent and casual to throw any light on the earlier historically and geographically significant "mythical islands" or on what these reveal.