[36] Ramusio, I. 874.

[37] This seems to mean the Straits of Babelmandel. Having lost sight of
Prester John in Tartary, the Portuguese were delighted with the
discovery of a Christian king in Africa, the Negus of Abyssinia; and
transferred to him that popular fable.--E.

[38] These countries, with the river and cape mentioned in the text, are
now unknown, these arbitrary names having merged in the nomenclature
of more recent settlers. If the latitude be nearly accurate, it may
have been on the confines of Georgia and South Carolina.--E.

[39] Gomar. II. l.

[40] Id. II. lx.

[41] Malacca of the text ought certainly to be Molucca: Bouro is in lat.
3 deg. 20' S. Timor between 8 deg. 30' and 10 deg. 20' S.--E.

[42] Gomar. IV. viii.

[43] Id. VI. iv. li.

[44] Gomar. IV. viii, and xii. Castagn. VI. xli.

[45] Gomar. VI. xii.

[46] Castagn. VI. xlii.

[47] Gomar. II. lxi. The text, in Hakluyt's translation, has the absurd
number of 76,000 Castilians lost in this war; 76 is a more probable
number, and is considerable out of his small force: yet, the text may
mean 76,000 _Castellans_ of gold, as the sum expended on the
expedition; and which Hakluyt, or his printer, changed to that number
of _Castilians_.--E.

[48] Gomar. Conqu. de Mex. f. 226.

[49] Id. 242. This bay reaches no farther to the S. than 148 10' N.--E.

[50] Id. f. 229. 230.

[51] Id. f. 233.

[52] Gomar. Conqu. f. 234. and Hist. Gen. III. xxi.

[53] Id: Hist. Gen. II. vii.

[54] In this latitude, on the shore of Costa Rica, there is a town now
called Porto Cartago; but whether that indicated in the text it is
difficult to say, as Galvano is not always perfectly accurate in his
latitudes.--E.

[55] Gomar. Hist. Gen. II. lxv. and Conqu. f. 243.

[56] Gomar. Hist. Gen. II. lxvi, and Conqu. f. 256-261.

[57] The Spanish leagues are 17-1/2 to the degree of latitude, hence this
march exceeded 2000 English miles.--E. Gomar. Hist. Gen. II. lxvi. Id.
Conqu. 246-273.

[58] Gomar. Hist. Gen. V. i. and ii.

[59] The ambiguity of the language is here utterly inexplicable.--E.

[60] Meaning probably the lake of Titicaca in Peru. It is hardly necessary
to say that this slight survey of the Plata must be erroneous,
especially in its reports. The Rio San Francisco, alludes to one of
the sources of the Great Maranon, or river of the Amazons.--E.

[61] Ramusio, III. 3