As regards Gauenispola, of which he promised to tell us and forgot his promise, its name has disappeared from our modern maps, but it is easily traced in the maps of the 16th and 17th centuries, and in the books of navigators of that time.  The latest in which I have observed it is the Neptune Oriental, Paris 1775, which calls it Pulo Gommes.  The name is there applied to a small island off Achin Head, outside of which lie the somewhat larger Islands of Pulo Nankai (or Nasi) and Pulo Bras, whilst Pulo Wai lies further east.[1] I imagine, however, that the name was by the older navigators applied to the larger Island of Pulo Bras, or to the whole group.  Thus Alexander Hamilton, who calls it Gomus and Pulo Gomuis, says that “from the Island of Gomus and Pulo Wey ... the southernmost of the Nicobars may be seen.”  Dampier most precisely applies the name of Pulo Gomez to the larger island which modern charts call Pulo Bras.  So also Beaulieu couples the islands of “Gomispoda and Pulo Way” in front of the roadstead of Achin.  De Barros mentions that Gaspar d’Acosta was lost on the Island of Gomispola.  Linschoten, describing the course from Cochin to Malacca, says:  “You take your course towards the small Isles of GOMESPOLA, which are in 6 deg., near the corner of Achin in the Island of Sumatra.”  And the Turkish author of the Mohit, in speaking of the same navigation, says:  “If you wish to reach Malacca, guard against seeing JAMISFULAH ([Arabic]), because the mountains of LAMRI advance into the sea, and the flood is there very strong.”  The editor has misunderstood the geography of this passage, which evidently means “Don’t go near enough to Achin Head to see even the islands in front of it.”  And here we see again that Lambri is made to extend to Achin Head.  The passage is illustrated by the report of the first English Voyage to the Indies.  Their course was for the Nicobars, but “by the Master’s fault in not duly observing the South Star, they fell to the southward of them, within sight of the Islands of Gomes Polo.” (Nept.  Orient. Charts 38 and 39, and pp. 126-127; Hamilton, II. 66 and Map; Dampier, ed. 1699, II. 122; H.  Gen. des Voyages, XII. 310; Linschoten, Routier, p. 30; De Barros, Dec.  III. liv. iii. cap. 3; J.A.S.B. VI. 807; Astley, I. 238.)

The two islands (or rather groups of islands) Necuveran and Angamanain are the Nicobar and Andaman groups.  A nearer trace of the form Necuveran, or Necouran as it stands in some MSS., is perhaps preserved in Nancouri, the existing name of one of the islands.  They are perhaps the Nalo-kilo-cheu (Narikela-dvipa) or Coco-nut Islands of which Hiuen Tsang speaks as existing some thousand li to the south of Ceylon.  The men, he had heard, were but 3 feet high, and had the beaks of birds.  They had no cultivation and lived on coco-nuts.