10. Ramusio gives a long and minute account of this
unfortunate expedition, entitled, Relation made by Alvaro Nunez, of
what befel the armament sent to the _Indies_ (America) under Pamphilo
Narvaez in the year 1527, to the end of 1536; when he returned to
Seville with _three_ only of his companions.--Clarke.

[62] The inhabitants of this island were most probably _tatooted_, of
which custom a particular description will be given hereafter, in the
particular voyages of discovery in the South Sea.--E.

[63] The longitudes being altogether neglected in these relations by
Galyano, it is impossible to form any conjecture as to the islands
indicated in text. They may possibly have belonged to the Carolines of
modern maps, which extend between long. 135 deg. and 180 deg. E. and about the
latitudes of the text.--E.

[64] The account which Galvano gives of this voyage is very vague and
inconclusive. We shall find afterwards that the Spaniards found out
the means of counteracting the perpetual eastern trade winds of the
Pacific within the tropics, by shaping a more northerly course from
the Philippine islands, where they established the staple of their
Indian commerce, between Acapulco and Manilla.--E.

[65] Galvano certainly mistakes here in assigning Tecoantepec, which is at
least 340 miles from the nearest part of the bay of Honduras. If a
navigation were practicable from Tecoantepec, it would more probably
be towards Tabasco, at the bottom of the bay of Campechy. Perhaps he
ought to have said from Guatimala to the gulf of Dolse, at the bottom
of the bay of Honduras. This splendid navigation between the Atlantic
and Pacific, within the tropics, like that between the Mediterranean
and Red Sea, still remains an unsolved problem. It will be resumed
hereafter, among the voyages and travels to Spanish America.--E.

[66] These seem all to have been brothers to Pizarro, and named from the
town of Alcantara in Spain.--E.

[67] The mouth of the Maranon is exactly under the line.--E.

[68] The latitude of Cusco is only 13 deg. 30' S.--E.

[69] Gomar. Hist. Gen. V. vi. vii. viii. ix

[70] Gomar. Hist. Gen. V. xvi. xviii. xix.

[71] So named from the two brothers, Caspar and Michael Cortereal, who are
said to have been lost on this coast of North America in 1500, as
formerly mentioned by Galvano.--E.

[72] Xalis, or Xalisco