There are several other expressions about the meaning of which we differ; but I will only refer to some of them, that are of sufficient importance, either directly or indirectly, to make it desirable that Cuellar's statement concerning them should be correctly given. I do not refer to them in any spirit of adverse criticism, but in the interests of accuracy, as regards details, in the description of an important historical event. Both parties translate _montes_ as _mountains_. This, I think, is a mistake: it should be _woods_. Cuellar repeatedly uses the correct word, _montañas_, to express mountains; so that when we find him writing _montes_, the natural inference is that he was referring to something of a different nature; besides, _montes_ is frequently made use of in Spanish to denote woods. Professor O'Reilly translates _manta_ as _cloak_ throughout; while Mr. Sedgwick also does so the first time he meets with it, but calls it _blanket_ always afterwards. _Manta_ means a blanket, but _manto_ is a mantle, veil, or cloak; and the error alluded to is due, no doubt, to the similarity of the two words. Again, both gentlemen translate _un trompeta_ as a _trumpet_: it should be a _trumpeter_. The cause of the mistake here lies in overlooking the nature of the article made use of. _Trompeta_ is both a masculine and feminine noun. The former signifies the man who blows a trumpet, and the latter is the instrument itself. In the present instance, the article (_un_) being masculine, shows that the word is used in its masculine sense, and therefore means a _trumpeter_. I will now briefly refer to a few cases of the two translators separately, taking Professor O'Reilly first. _Galleon_ and _galley_ do not translate each other, but refer to very different classes of ships. Cuellar did not remain on board _his own ship_ after he had been sentenced to death and reprieved, but was detained on the ship of the Judge Advocate, in which he was subsequently wrecked. The number of dead bodies lying on the shore where he was cast away is given by Cuellar as more than 600, not as more than 800. "_Casiñas de paja_" means, I think, that the huts were not merely thatched with straw, but composed of it altogether. This appears to be clear from the fact that Cuellar uses another expression--"_Casas pajizas_"--when he wished to describe the thatched houses in Ocan's village. Referring to the ship that Cuellar's companions--who outstripped him--embarked upon, and in the wreck of which they were subsequently lost, Professor O'Reilly says she "_drifted there by good luck_" (_con gran fortuna_). I think this is not the true meaning of the passage, but that the ship was driven in "_by a great tempest_" or storm; for he goes on to say that her main-mast and rigging were much injured. It should be borne in mind that _fortuna_ means a storm or tempest, as well as fortune or luck.