CHAPTER VIII.
DESLIENS' MAP.
His is another planisphere, of the same school of map-makers.
I give it here in its entirety, in order to show how the Australian portion stands, in all these maps, with reference to other countries.
It will be observed that, for accuracy, Australia compares favorably with, for instance, North America, named on this map, La Nouvelle France.
Besides its beautiful execution there is nothing to call for special notice unless it be that three Portuguese flags are shown as flying over Australian shores, a sure sign of annexation.

The map-maker's name, _Nicolas Desliens_, date 1566, and Dieppe, the place where the map was made, are marked on a scroll right across the fictitious portion of Java-la-Grande.
In this short chapter, before leaving the subject of the old manuscript maps of Australia, and devoting the remaining pages of my book to actual voyages of discovery, I shall refer once more to the importance of the Lusitano-Spanish planispheres of the Dieppese school of cartography* because most of those documents, becoming the property of French map-makers, were used in various endeavours which were made to induce European sovereigns to colonize the Great South Land.
[*Most of these maps were made at Dieppe; all of them were made in the north of France.] In the preceding pages I have only described the most important of these manuscript charts.

The following is the list in chronological order of all the specimens known to exist:-- 1.

The Dauphin Chart 1530-36 2.

N.Valiard's (so-called) 1539-49 3.