Nobody Knows Precisely when Bermuda was Discovered
Bermuda takes its name from Juan de Bermudez, who we know was able to thread his way through the reefs in 1515 and anchor his ship, La Garza, close to land. But as the Island appears on a map published by Peter Martyr in 1511, there is a theory that Bermudez might have been our first return visitor. On his 1515 voyage, he had a distinguished historian aboard, a man called Gonzales Ferdinando d’Oviedo, who wrote a brief account of the call. Foul weather, he said, prevented a planned landing.
The Hog’s Part in Bermuda’s Rich History and Heritage
The hog on the current Bermuda Penny is a reproduction of the one originaly depricted on Bermuda's first coinage.
Bermuda is known to have been populated by wild hogs when Henry May and the company of the Sea Venture were wrecked here. One writer says the 140 Sea Venture survivors dined on them for nine months, and didn’t seem to make much of a dent in their number. Perhaps in thanks, the first coins issued in Bermuda were called Hog Money. On the obverse face were a wild boar and the words Sommer Islands, and on the reverse, a ship under sail, with the Cross of St George at each masthead.
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