- RBSC-ARC-1811-1-09
- File
Part of Jim McDowell collection
Although Crosse attributed the chart to Narváez, it was probably drafted for him by Carrasco, or it was produced jointly. The notations are in Carrasco’s handwriting. It appears to be a final chart because it contains many more details than two earlier preliminary charts which were probably drawn by Narváez based on his explorations of this waterway in both 1789 and 1791. The first of the two charts contained in this packet shows some place names, numbers for soundings, a clearly marked entrance route, and the remaining course indicated by letters presented alphabetically to show the order in which sites were visited, anchors to show probable stopovers, and squares for Aboriginal settlements. The second chart was adapted by McDowell, 2015, to show the complete probable route. This was the first European chart of the entire sound. Narváez apparently made first contact with Indigenous peoples living at the site he named Fondo del Vanado (“locale of the deer”).