[456] ii. 156, etc.
[457] D’Avezac: Iles d’Afrique (Paris, 1848) 2e partie; Iles connues des Arabes, pp. 15; Les îles de Saint-Brandan, pp. 19; Les îsles nouvellement trouvées du quinzième siècle, pp. 24. The last two pieces had been previously published under the title Les îles fantastiques de l’Ocean occidental au moyen âge, in the Nouvelles Annales des Voyages (Mars, Avril, 1845), 2d série, i. 293; ii. 47.
[458] Les îsles fantastiques de l’Atlantique au moyen âge. Lyon [1883], pp. 15. This is apparently extracted from the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Lyon for 1883.
[In Poole’s Index is a reference to an article on imaginary islands in London Society, i. 80, 150.]
[459] “Zur Geschichte der Erdkunde in der letzten Hälfte des Mittelalters. Die Karten der seefahrenden Völker Süd-Europas bis zum ersten Druck der Erdbeschreibung des Ptolemaeus.” Jahresbericht, vi. vii. (1870). Accompanying the article are sketches of the principal mediæval maps, which are useful if access to the more trustworthy reproductions cannot be had.
[460] Sammlung mittelalterlicher Welt- und Seekarten italienischen Ursprungs, etc. (Venice, 1886), especially pp. 14-22, and under the notices of particular maps in the second part.
[461] The Life of Prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the Navigator, etc. London, 1868.
[462] The position of these islands and the fact that the Arabs believed that they were following Ptolemy in placing in them the first meridian seems almost conclusive in favor of the Canaries; but M. D’Avezac is inclined in favor of the Azores, because the Arabs place in the Eternal Isles certain pillars and statues warning against further advance westward, which remind him of the equestrian statues of the Azores, and because Ebn Sáyd states that the Islands of Happiness lie between the Eternal Islands and Africa.
[463] D’Avezac, Iles d’Afrique, ii. 15. Géographie d’Abul-Fada trad. par M. Reinand et M. Guiyard (Paris, 1848-83). 2 vols. The first volume contains a treatise on Arabian geographers and their systems. Géographie d’Edrisi trad. par M. Jaubert (Paris, 1836-40). 2 vols. 4to (Soc. de Géogr. de Paris, Recueil de Voyages, v., vi.) Cf. Cherbonneau on the Arabian geographers in the Revue de Géographie (1881).
[464] Humboldt, Examen Crit., ii. 163; D’Avezac, Iles d’Afrique, ii. 19; St. Malo’s voyage by Beauvois, Rev. Hist. Relig., viii. 986.