The Migara-Kertsgama contains a list of dependencies of Majapahit, including a series of islands in eastern Indonesia, among them Galiyao, Sumba, Solot and Timur (Pigeaud 1962, IV:34). In a recent article van Fraassen (1976) has attempted to identify Galiyao with Kalao between Saleier and Flores. I shall try on the contrary to bring Galiyao back to the Solor Archipelago. It speaks in favor of van Fraassen's choice that the name Galiyao appears in a sequence of locations around Sulawesi, but as Pigeaud notes, the list has no order, six remote islands being mentioned for example between Solor and Timor. Kalao does indeed look more like Galiyao than do the designations of any of the other islands or districts which have been suggested from time to time, and the strength of van Fraassen's position lies in this similarity. There are a number of early sources for Galiyao. In a book first published in 1563, GalvAo (1944:85, 170) describes the first Portu guese expedition to the Moluccas as sailing in 1511 from Java past Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Solor, Galao and Malua (Alor). Pigafetta's account and chart of the Victoria's voyage into the Ombai Strait in January 1522 refer likewise to Galiau between Zolot and Mallua. Galian appears between Sulawesi and Buru on the world map by Ortelius of 1564. Mercator's world map of 1569 places Galiam, Noceuamor and Zolot incorrectly in the Flores Sea to the north of Alor (Vatter 1932, table 7). His later map of the Far East joins Pantar and Lembata into one island named Louballo (Mercator 1636). Linschoten's map of Asia shows Guliam between Solor and Alor, but like other sources of the time does not distinguish Lembata from Pantar (Lin schoten 1579-1592). The early map makers copied one another, and all those showing Galiyao derive one way or another evidently from Pigafetta.