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 any obervation, and he left them, as he found them, without a name.

long afterwards (1594) Sir Richard Hawkins, being in the ame eas with the ame deigns, aw thee ilands again, if they are indeed the ame ilands, and in honour of his mitres, called them Hawkins’s Maiden Land.

voyage was not of renown ufficient to procure a general reception to the new name, for when the Dutch, who had now become trong enough not only to defend themelves, but to attack their maters, ent (1598) Verhagen and Sebald de Wert, into the South Sea, thee Ilands, which were not uppoed to have been known before, obtained the denomination of Sebald’s Ilands, and were from that time placed in the charts; though Frezier tells us, that they were yet conidered as of doubtful exitence.