[Endnote 164: (p. 214). _Point of Santa Anna._--[It is situate to the south of the Rio de S. João, on the chart of João Freire of 1546.]--S.] [Endnote 165: (p. 218). _Islands._--[We think that these islands are the ones marked on certain charts, principally French, with the name of "Ilhas da Madalena."]--S]. [Endnote 166: (p. 220). _Buffaloes._--[It was, in fact, the African buffalo that our seamen saw there.]--S.] [Endnote 167: (p. 224). _Hermes._--[(Ἔρμας). Azurara refers here to the book of this author entitled _The Shepherd_, composed in the pontificate of St. Clement sometime before the persecution of Domitian which began in the year 95. Origen, Eusebius, St. Jerome, St. Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian mentioned this work. By this passage we see that Azurara, in citing it, did not admit the view of Gelasius, who classed it among the apocryphal books.]--S.] [Endnote 168: (p. 225). _As he could._--[Compare this passage with what we have said in previous notes about the Infant's plans.]--S.] [Endnote 169: (p. 225). _Nile._--[The Senegal, or Nile of the Negroes.]--S.] [Endnote 170: (p. 226). _An island._--[It must be the Island of Gorea (Goree), situate in 14° 39' 55" N. lat. On this island see Demanet, _Nouvelle histoire de l'Afrique_, tom. 1, pp. 87-97, passim. _Notices statistiques sur les colonies françaises_ (troisième partie, pp. 187-189), a work published by the Ministry of Marine in 1839.]--S.] [Endnote 171: (p. 228). _Cape of the Masts._--[This cape appears marked with this name in nearly all the ancient MS. maps of the sixteenth century. It is clear then that the name of this cape was first given to that point by Alvaro Fernandez. Barros (_Decade I_, liv. 1, fol. 26, ed. 1628) says of this voyage: "He passed to the place they now call the Cabo dos Mastos: a name he then gave it on account of some bare palm trees that at first sight looked like masts set up."]--S.] [Endnote 172: (p. 229). _A hind._--[This description leaves not the smallest doubt that the animal which our seamen saw there, and of which the author treats, is the antelope, and probably "the other beasts" were herds of the same kind. On the history of the antelopes the reader should consult Buffon and Cuvier.]--S.] [Endnote 173: (p. 230). _Dwellings_ (_Essacanas_).--[This word is not to be found either in the _Elucidario_ or in Portuguese dictionaries; it is met with, however, in the heptaglot of Castell, and in Golius, but there the meaning of this Arabic word is given as being "a place where a person dwells." Even if this be admitted for the explanation of the text, the latter still remains obscure; however, it seems to us that the author meant to say, that all those observations were made in the "(Essacanas) dwellings ... that exist on certain sandbanks, according," etc. The mariners drew their charts, and marked the coasts, banks, etc., on the very spots themselves.]--S.]