It was plundered and burned by the
English adventurer Thomas Candish, on August 24-25, 1587.
[259] Thus named because seamen and voyagers noticed especially
the lateen sails of the light vessels used by the natives of the
Marianas.--_Rizal_.
[260] A marine fish (_Sparus auratus_), thus named because it has
spots of golden-yellow color.
[261] A chart of the Indian Ocean, by L. S. de la Rochette
(pub. London, 1803, by W. Faden, geographer to the king) shows three
volcanoes in about 25 deg. north latitude, and but a few degrees north
of the Ladrones. One of them is called "La Desconocida, or Third
Volcano," and the following is added: "The Manilla ships always try
to make this Volcano."
[262] A group of islands called Shidsi To, lying in 34 deg. 20'.--_Rizal_.
[263] "Thirty-eight degrees" is probably an error for "twenty-eight
degrees," and these islands [the first ones mentioned in the above
sentence] would be the Mounin-Sima Islands, lying between 26 deg. 35'
and 27 deg. 45'; and Lot's Wife in 29 deg.
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