The Origin And the Meaning of the Name California Calafia the Queen of the Isl
The Origin And the Meaning of the Name California Calafia the Queen of the Isl
Davidson George
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That the Silver Map must have been engraved after Drake's voyage of 1585-86. 1595. — On the Iodocus Hondius hemispherical map of 1595 (?) he designates the peninsula of Lower California as 'California. ' This map contains reports of discoveries to 1588. 1596. — The northern half of De Bry's "America Sive Novus Orbis, 1596, " has the peninsula named 'California'. See reference to Coronado's Expedition, by Win ship. *The title in Mr. Christy's reduced copy is "Illvstro Viro, Domino Phillipo Sidna...so, Mi- chael Lok Civis Londinensis Hanc Chartam Dedicabat: 1582. " 12 THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME CALIFORNIA. 1597. — "Wytfliet's New Granada and California, 1597, " in the Coronado Expedition. The title of the map is 'Granata nova et California'; and at the end of the peninsula is 'C. De California, ' and between it and the main coast 'Californiae Sinus', the Gulf of Cali- fornia. 1602-3. — On the chart of the reconnaissance of the northwest coast by Sebastian Vizcaino, drawn up from his thirty-two sub- charts by the officers of the Sutil y Mexicana in 1792-1802, the name "Californias" stretches through parts of Upper and Lower California.
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