History of a Voyage to the Falkland Islands

Navigators of all nations who have landed there have wished for the glory of giving them a name; this species of sovereignty flatters sailors just as astronomers are flattered by the right to name the stars.

I do not speak of Hawkins, who as early as the year 1593 gave, it is said, the name of Virginia to the Malouine Islands; but around 1714 Mr. Fou-

attributed to the Map of Frezier, on the position of the Patagonian coast.

Finally, regarding those islands that the Knight Hawkins perceived in 1593 at 50 degrees East of the deserted coast of the Patagonians The Patagonians were the indigenous people of southern South America, often described in early accounts as giants, it is not probable that they are the northern part of the Malouine Islands; Mr. de Bougainville Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, the French explorer who established the first settlement on the islands sailed along this coast for at least 60 leagues like Hawkins, and perceived no fire there, nor any appearance of habitation, although he was often only half a league or a league away from it.

-quet of Saint-Malo called them Anican, after the name of his ship-owner Armateur: a person or company that fits out and commissions a merchant ship; Admiral Roggewin, who in 1721 coasted the main island on the eastern side, gave it the name of Southern Belgia; some English Captains have made them known under the name of the Falkland Islands; our ship-owners have sometimes called them the New Islands of Saint-Louis; and it appears that Europe today consents to leave them the name of the Malouine Islands original: "Isles Malouines," derived from the sailors of Saint-Malo.

Near the great Malouine Island on the northern side, are three small islands arranged in a triangle, which were for some time confused with those that Mr. de Bougainville identified; but it appears that these are the Sebal- Likely referring to the Sebald Islands, now known as the Jason Islands