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HEREFORD MAP OF CIRCA 1275 39 suntjnsulae Set Brandanl." Ijis about on the^sjtfi^f the Canary group, and the elliptical island Junonia is just below. The show- ing is uncertain and conventional ; also the number six misses the mark by one; still there can be no doubt that the Canaries as a whole were intended. Concerning them Edrisi 7 had observed, about 1154: "yhe Fortunate Islands are two in number and are in the Sea of Darkness." Perhaps he had Lanzarote and Fuerte- ventura, the most accessible pair, especially in mind. The surviving derivatives of the last eighth-century Beatus map 8 also bear the inscription "Insulae Fortunate" where the Canary Islands should be, but they assert nothing of "St. Brandan." Doubtless, dimly known, they had been reputed Isles of the Blest from prehistoric times. If St. Brendan found them, he found them already the "Fortunate Isles." A tradition long survived perhaps survives still in the Canary archipelago supporting this identification by the Here- ford map. Thus Father Espinosa, 9 who long dwelt in Teneriffe and wrote his book there between 1580 and 1590, avers that St. Brendan and his companions spent several years in that archi- pelago and quotes a still earlier "calendar," date not given, as authority for their mighty works done there "in the time of the Emperor Justinian." Even as late as the eighteenth century an expedition sailed from among them for an island believed to be outside of those already known and to be the one discovered by St. Brendan. 7 Edrisi's "Geography," in two versions, the first based on two, the second on four manuscripts, viz.: (i) P. A. Jaubert (translator): Geographic d'Edrisi, traduite de 1'Arabe en Francais, 2 vols. (Recueil de Voyages et de Memoires public par la Societe de Geographic, Vols. 5 and 6), Paris, 1836 and 1840; reference in Vol. 2, p. 27; (2) R. Dozy and M. J. De Goeje (translators): Description de 1'Afrique et de 1'Espagne par Edrisi: Texte arabe public pour la premiere fois d'aprSs les man. de Paris et d'Oxford, Leiden, 1866. 8 Konrad Miller: Die Weltkarte des Beatus (776 n. Chr.), with facsimile of one derivative, Heft i of his "Mappaemundi: Die altesten Weltkarten," Stuttgart, 1895. The 9 other derivatives on Pis. 2-9 of Heft 2 (Atlas von 16 Lichtdrucktafeln. Stuttgart, 1895). The Guanches of Tenerife: The Holy Image of Our Lady of Candelaria and the Spanish Conquest and Settlement, by the Friar Alonso de Espinosa of the Order of Preachers, translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, by Sir Clements Markham, Hakluyt Soc. Publs., 2nd Ser., Vol. 21, London, 1907, p. 39.