His is another planisphere, of the same school of map-makers. I give it here in its entirety, in order to show how the Australian portion stands, in all these maps, with reference to other countries. It will be observed that, for accuracy, Australia compares favorably with, for instance, North America, named on this map, La Nouvelle France. Besides its beautiful execution there is nothing to call for special notice unless it be that three Portuguese flags are shown as flying over Australian shores, a sure sign of annexation. The map-maker's name, _Nicolas Desliens_, date 1566, and Dieppe, the place where the map was made, are marked on a scroll right across the fictitious portion of Java-la-Grande. In this short chapter, before leaving the subject of the old manuscript maps of Australia, and devoting the remaining pages of my book to actual voyages of discovery, I shall refer once more to the importance of the Lusitano-Spanish planispheres of the Dieppese school of cartography* because most of those documents, becoming the property of French map-makers, were used in various endeavours which were made to induce European sovereigns to colonize the Great South Land. [*Most of these maps were made at Dieppe; all of them were made in the north of France.] In the preceding pages I have only described the most important of these manuscript charts. The following is the list in chronological order of all the specimens known to exist:-- 1. The Dauphin Chart 1530-36 2. N. Valiard's (so-called) 1539-49 3. Jean Roze's 1542 4. The Henri II. (of France) 1546 5. P. Desceliers' 1550 6. G. Le Testu's 1555 7. Desliens' 1566 CHAPTER IX. MENDANA AND SARMIENTO DISCOVER THE SOLOMONS. With the hope of making fresh discoveries and in pursuance of their object to establish a trade between the Spice Islands and their newly acquired colonies on the western shores of America, the Spaniards continued to send out expeditions whenever an opportunity offered. Ever widening their sphere of action, they now looked forward to the southern regions of the Pacific Ocean as the land of promise, the _El Dorado_ of their dreams; Saavedra's _Isla de Oro_ and Retez's and Gaspar Rico's discoveries were not to be forgotten either. It is in those regions that the legends and traditions of the times placed the islands from which King Solomon derived the gold and other treasures that served for the decoration of the temple of Jerusalem. These legends, founded partly on historical events, and partly coupled with traditions handed down in the Royal Incarial families of Peru, seem to have given a powerful stimulus to Spanish enterprise in the South Pacific Ocean.