d'orset

Updated: July 9, 2026

Clarke, Progress of Maritime Discovery, I. 167. In a note, Mr Clarke says the name of this lady has been supposed by some writers to have been Dorset, corrupted by a foreign orthography into D'Orset, and thence into D'Arfet. It may have been D' Arcy. Account of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands .

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