Note 7 — Part II

In Spanish text, Cabo de Hornos, but there is no information available to show whether this is simply a corruption of the Dutch explorer’s name (as seems more probable), or whether the Spaniards used the name Hornos (meaning “ovens”) through some accidental circumstance or association. The first discovery of Cape Horn was made by Francisco de Hoces, one of the ship-captains in Loaisa’s expedition of 1525, who was driven thither by contrary winds; but the cape was first doubled from the east by the Dutch commander William Cornelisz Schouten van Hoorn in 1616—accounts of this voyage being written by both Van Hoorn and his companion Lemaire. (Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, viii, pp. 384, 409–412.) ↑