[5] Cape de Verd is in 14° 30' N. Deseada in 16° 30' N. a difference of two degrees of latitude. Dominica, in 15° 30' is the first land said to have been discovered by Columbus in his _second_ voyage, in the authentic original narrative by his son, which will be found in the sequel.--E. [6] Counting from Dominica to the north side of Cuba, between 15° 30' and 23° 15'.--E. [7] The negociators of the two crowns, as here related, seem to have been ignorant that this loose division of the globe gave the whole reciprocally to each of the parties.--E. [8] The apparent object seems to have been in search of a passage to the East Indies by way of the north-west, a chimera long and anxiously sought after. It is needless to make any observations on these indistinct notices, as the voyage of Cabot will be afterwards given at full length.--E. [9] The centre of Trinidada is in 10° 30'N. its S.W. point in 10° 12', and the N.E. cape in 10º 45' N.--E. [10] De Barros, Dec. I. 1. 4. c. 2. and to the end of ch. 11.--Hakl. [11] Osorius says this voyage commenced on the 9th of July.--Clarke. [12] This Panama seems a blunder of some ignorant copyist, for Panarame. --E. [13] The coast here is nearly N. and S. and their course must have been to the north.--E. [14] The Marannon and Amazons are the same river. Perhaps by the Rio Dolce the Orinoco may be meant; but in these slight notices of discovery it is impossible at times to ascertain the real positions, through the alteration of names.--E. [15] From the latitude indicated by Galvano, the land of Cortereal may have been somewhere on the eastern side of Newfoundland.--E. [16] Barros, Dec. 1. I. 5. c. 10. [17] Gomara, I. 2. [18] About 8200 ounces, worth about L. 16,000 sterling; equal in modern efficacy, perhaps, to L. 100,000.--E. [19] Probably an error for Taprobana; the same by which Ceylon was known to the ancients.--E. [20] The Cakerlaka of other writers, which can only be large monkeys or baboons, called men with tails, through ignorance or imposture.--E. [21] Rumi still continues the eastern name of the Turkish empire, as the successor of the Roman emperors, in Assyria and Egypt. Hence these Roman gold coins may have come in the way of trade from Assyria or Egypt, or may possibly have been Venetian sequins.--E. [22] The author must here mean Cochin China by the coast of Patane.--E. [23] About 1000 by 320 English miles.--E. [24] This story of the skull of a small insect is quite unintelligible, and must have been misunderstood entirely by Hakluyt, the translator: It is the Elephant, probably, that is here meant.--E. [25] Probably the bird of Paradise.--Clarke. [26] P. Martyr, Dec. 3. c. 10. [27] The island of Tararequi is in lat. 5° N.