was probably the isle named Limasava in Bellin's map, thus interchanging the real port of Mazaua with the way station Gatighan. Largely with the appearance of the eyewitness account of Ginés de Mafra, the only seaman in Magellan's fleet to return to Mazaua, whose testimony reveals a concrete, measurable description of Mazaua, the skein starting from the garbled version of Pigafetta by Ramusio to the mishandling by Combés to Bellin and finally to Amoretti has been unraveled: Pigafetta's Gatighan is Bellin's Limasava. Published works Published during his lifetime were: Hydrographie française (1753) Carte de l'Amérique septentrionale (Map of Northern America) (1755) Le petit Atlas François. Recueil de Cartes et Plans des quatre parties du Monde (1758) Petit Atlas Maritime (1764) Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la géographie (1769) Description géographique du golfe de Venise et de la Morée (1771) See also Sea of the West References Library and Archives Canada – The Mapmakers: an essay in four parts (French) E. Taillemite. Dictionnaire des marins français. Paris, 1982. Jean-Marc Garant. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1722), cartographe, hydrographe, ingénieur du ministère de la Marine: sa vie, son oeuvre, sa valeur historique. Thèse (M.A., Histoire), Montréal: 1973 Combés, Francisco. 1667. Historia de las islas de Mindanao, Iolo y sus adyacentes. W.E. Retana (ed.). Madrid 1897. de Jesus, Vicente C. (2002). Mazaua Historiography. Retrieved 27 February 2007, from MagellansPortMazaua mailing list, E. Taillemite. Dictionnaire des marins francais. Paris, 1982. Herrera, Antonio de. 1601. Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierrafirme del mar oceano, t. VI. Angel Gonzalez Palencia (ed.). Madrid 1947. Ramusio, Gian Battista. "La Detta navigatione per messer Antonio Pigafetta Vicentino". In: Delle navigatione... Venice: pp. 380–98. External links See a 1754 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Karte von der Erdenge Panama und den Provinzen Veragua, Terra Firma und Darien / zur allgemeinen Historie der Reisen, von dem Hrn Bellin ; Ing. de la Marine., hosted by the Portal to Texas History. "Map of the Coast of Arabia, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf" by Bellin that dates to 1740 1703 births 1772 deaths 18th-century French cartographers Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772) French exploration in the Age of Discovery Fellows of the Royal Society French male non-fiction writers 18th-century French male writers