la, 1892), pp. 215, 216.

The two royal decrees are translated from copies of the originals,
which are found in the "Cedulario Indico" in the Archivo Historico
Nacional at Madrid; their pressmarks are: for the decree of 1879,
"Tomo 31, F deg. 132b, n deg. 135;" for that of 1580, "Tomo 31, F deg. 193b, n deg.
184." The "Cedulario" contains forty MSS. volumes of these decrees,
with a calendar index of twenty-four volumes.

NOTES

[1] The Spanish phrase here is _armas enastadas_, literally, "weapons
fastened to handles." See cuts of Chinese battle-axes (from specimens
in Musee d' Artillerie, Paris) in Auguste Demmin's _Arms and Armor_
(London, 1877), p. 442.

[2] The day of St. Andrew falls on November 30, according to the
church calendars.

[3] This narrative is given in Juan Gonzales de Mendoza's
_Hist. China,_ part ii, book i, ch. ix-xxix.

[4] Marco Polo, the noted Venetian traveler, was born about 1256,
and died in his native city in 1323. His father and uncle were also
travelers; they went to Tartary in 1255, returning to Europe in
1269, as envoys from the noted Kublai Khan. Two years later, they
returned to the court of that ruler, accompanied by the young Marco;
and they remained in the service of the Mongol emperor until 1292,
when they returned to Venice. Marco's account of his travels and
observations was written as early as 1307. A Latin version of it
was published in Antwerp, about 1485; and one in Italian at Venice,
in 1496. Many other editions and translations of it have since been
issued--perhaps the most notable being that by G. Pauthier (Paris,
1865). See this editor's account of Polo and of his work, in Hoefer's
_Nouvelle biographie generale_, t. xxxix, art. Polo; Pauthier shows
that this work must have been originally written in French. Kublai
Khan at that time had his capital at Pekin, not at Kingsze.

[5] The Great Wall of China was constructed during the reign of
Hoangti, the second emperor of the Tsin dynasty (about 244 to 210
B.C.); it was built to protect the Chinese land from the invasions
of the Tartar hordes on the west and north, among whom were those
later known as Huns.

[6] The oil extracted from sesame (_Sesamum indicum_); it is used by
the natives for the hair, and in medicine.

[7] Chichimecos (meaning "braves") was a term applied to all the wild
tribes of Mexico; it was also used specially to designate the hunting
and pastoral tribes in the northern provinces of th