found. The climate was mild and pleasmt, hut there were inhahitmats to he seen near the harlmur, which "Zichmni" named

"Trim" After eight days the soldiers returned with news th:t they had visited the w)lcauo and found wild men of small stature who dwelt h caves. There was a large river and a good harbour at this place, they reported. On this "Zichmni" conceived the idea ,,f settling there, hut his people were not willing, and wanted to o home; therefore he sent b;mk Antmio Zeno with the ships. himself retaining the row-bt,ats and a few tf the pe,,ple On his homeward voyage Zeno sailed twenty days to the east, and then five days more to the south-east. when he came to the isl;md "Nemne," which was beyond "Isl;mda." and subject to" Zichmni." Hence in three &;ys more he reached "Frishmda."

If the suhst;mtial truth of the ham;tire be meepted there are many dieulties t) be expl;;ined away. Whist, for instance, was "Zichmni," an Italian. doing in these northern ishmds, and hw had he ,btained his sovereignty? H,,w is it that the tinhals of Norway cmtaiu no reference to him ? Such awkward questions re avoided by tlmse who hold that Nicolo Zeno, the younger, mis- understood much nd interpolluted a little. This dries not necessarily involve bad faith on his prt. 5loreover, granted the truth of the Zeni's ccount, the voyages of the fishermen to "Estotiland" and "Dmgio"-hy far the luost marvellous part of the story--re not necessarily true. Their ;mthenticity has little to do with the Zeni voya. ges nd must he considered separately.

First, as to "Zichmni." Northern 11allleS would morally he somewhat dibh)rted in the Italian attempt at a plmnetic equiva- ]ent, and "Zichmni" is stonething like "8incldr." Still, as the Zeni professed to have resided some years in "Frislanda," wc shouhl certainly have expected greater accun[cy from meu of considerable kmxvledge, who xvere, as it appears, well acqmdlted with Latin. Hem3 Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, is the truly individual

In the Zt'm map "Trin" is marked as fie extreme soufierlv pint tf Gnland, equivalent, in lhct, wifi I':pe llvart; {w "turning 1,int." ]h'edsdtrtl' t'olmet'ts "'l'rin I'mre" with l(lillgingek (' Pmc. Iieagr. B,cie/y,' l.,ml-n, lS7, xlix. 410). 2., Nt. Ollle" is hy Fm'bter i,leniified with the island .f Na;dsC, e, me of ile smaller islands ' the F:rlie gmUl,. {}11 I}e mnp it al,pearb etnsiderab]y tu fie west ' "Frisland," midway between lle ]after and "Es/lnnd." M:d,,r. "un, pa. sti)nalle bhmder" [ff Nictlo], 'Zeni,' xxii.; "lnispl:tccment bcalities," ih. xxiii.: "misreading," lb.; Ni'ub, juniper, "cause of all l,erl,]exity," ib. xxx'.: "hyperlle." ib. xxviii.; "deplor:d,le emd'usion," xxxvii.; "this t, xcrebcelcC

w,,rk .f Ni'-h,, jnni,r," ib. xcix., etc.