[9] In an after part of this narrative, the pilot informs us, that his first voyage to the island of San Thome was in 1520, and that he made five voyages to that place. If, therefore, the date of his present voyage were fixed to 1530, it would carry us back to 1450, or even earlier, for the date of this discovery, near thirteen years before the death of Don Henry.--Clarke. In Mr Clarkes note on this passage, he erroneously calculates on the above data that the discovery might have been in 1460, which is only seventy years back from 1530. But the result of the data in the text shews, that either the pilot was mistaken as to the real date of the discovery, or that his narrative has been corrupted, so that no reliance can be placed on his dates.--E. [10] The direction of _Il Principe_, or Princes Island, from St Thomas, is N. N. E. and the distance does not exceed seventy miles.--Clarke. [11] These _batatas_ are probably a different species from our potatoes, and may be what are called sweet potatoes in the West Indies; perhaps the _igname cicorero_ is the West Indian _yam_. Four species of _igname_ or _batata_, are mentioned in Barbot as originally from Benin, Anwerre, Mani-Congo, and Saffrance. The first of these is remarkably sweet, and the second keeps well. A variety of esculent roots might prove of high utility to navigators, and are too much neglected. Among these, the parsnip and Jerusalem artichoke deserve notice, as being very nutritive, and proof against all weathers.--Clarke. SECTION III. _Continuation of Portuguese Discoveries, from Cape St Catherine to the kingdom of Congo_.