Portuguese, respecting the last wishes of Macham, built a chapel

above the grave. At Machico, if the story can be believed, the original wooden cross was still to be seen as 1;tt.e as lS, and even o-dav the remnants of it are shown to credulous tourists. a Some accounts represent the Capella de N.S. da Visitaqa5 t Machico occupying at least the site of the original chapel. but this ag&in disputed.

Galva5 omits MorMes altogether front his tale, and mentions Spanish expedition of discovery in 1393 or 1395 on the news Macham's doings reaching Henry Ilk of Castille. This expedition, we are told, fell in with the Canaries. 1]afros, the early Portuguese historian, records the discovery of Madeira in 1421 by Zarco and Vaz Teixera, and informs us that the explorers found on the island "the chapel. and the stone and tolnb whereupon the foresaid Machain had graven his name." Here be it not. iced the monument

It is probable, on the whole, that the story had some basis iu but the romancers have clearly embellished it with details. There is no large demirod upon our credulity in supposing voyagers driven by orm to Madeira. Unless the tradition had been widely prevalent at the close of the fifteenth and begimdng of the sixteenth cen;m'ies the national pride of the Portuguese historians would surely have prompted 0em to suppress it. hVe may take it that some trace of civiliscd inhabitants. who had come and gone. was 'ound by Portuguese, and that the rtunour of English discovery was current? A; the same time there is no first-hand or really authentic evidence, and it is practicMly certain that the name Mathleo has as little to do with Macham or Machin as the remnant of the cross now showit

Taylor, ' Madeira,' 1t5. a lb. 51. lb. 145. I have nt,t been able to fin,l any ch,se an,I detailed description of the M;tchico anchorage slid harlatr, s as to croupare it with the Alcatbrado accottnt. mentions a rtck, steep-to, and not marked on the charts. This. if it ever really existal, is nt4 shown on the Admiralty chart, n,r is allusion made to it in what saiiing direclions ! have I,tn able to tike'over. At Fum'hal is, of course, the Loo lhck [l'ur, ly, Memor .... t,f the Atlantic cean (Lt,ndt,n, 1s25}, pp. 20t-2o8]; but then Funchal is not Machico. alva% !lakl. St,c. Ed., p. 5. Admiral 11ethune, the editor, queries the date 13D5. ihrros, 14;-157o, in his ' Asia' (Lisbar,, 1552-5:1): "juge imlartial et en mme temps I,atriote enthusiaste" (' h'ande hn.ycl, qddie

Was the island of O'Brazil, which appears first in the Mediceau rtt,lant, of 1351, ladeira ? If so, it may have rejected Macham's discovery.