[404] Surabaya. [405] “Campong anghin,” the place of wind. [406] Sanscrit and Malay, a griffin. [407] Pigafetta has confounded rhubarb with the decayed wood of a tree found in Siam, which, when burnt, gives a very sweet perfume, and which sells at a high price. [408] Cochin. [409] Kwantung or Canton. [410] “Satu orang,” one man. [411] “Anjing,” a dog. [412] “Pokoh bisi,” club of iron. [413] “Panah,” a bow. [414] “Tombak,” a lance. [415] “Harimau,” a tiger; not a lion. All these words are Malay, the language in which the whole of this information must have been conveyed to Pigafetta. [416] “Laut Kidol,” Javanese, the Southern Ocean. [417] See statement of Herrera, p. 175. [418] Francis I. [419] Now the declination of the ecliptic, which answers to the poles of the eighth sphere of Pigafetta, is 23 deg. 28 min. 30 sec. Note, Milan edition. [420] Supposing that the surface of the globe under the equator were half land and half sea, and then giving to each league three and a half miles, we should have 22,050 miles for the circumference of the earth: a measure very little differing from that which results from giving to each degree at the equator sixty Italian miles, by which the circumference is 21,600 miles. Note, Milan edition. [421] The guard stars are β and γ of Ursa Minor, which form a triangle with the pole and pole star; now γ of the belt of Cassiopeia is used. Note, Milan edition. [422] This means the arm of the instrument used; it might be the meteoroscope of Regiomontano, which had a cross in the middle: or an astrolabe like it; or the common astrolabe with a dioptron, or mediclino, as Pigafetta calls it, placed on the equator. Note, Milan edition. [423] That is the meridian line from the pole to the equator. Note, Milan edition. [424] Though the radius of the circle which the pole star goes round is now little more than a degree and a half, in the time of Pigafetta it was 3 deg. 17 min. 37 sec., so that if he reckoned it at 3 deg. 30 min. it is wonderful that he should have made so small an error, notwithstanding the imperfection of his instruments. Note, Milan edition. [425] These three methods are probably those which, according to Castañeda, Faleiro taught to Magellan. Note, Milan edition. [426] That is to say, the knot where the orbit of the moon cuts the ecliptic. Note, Milan edition. [427] The fleur-de-lys placed at the north. [428] That is, where it coincides with the meridian and begins to deviate or vary. Note, Milan edition. [429] That is, varies east or west. [430] Or of midday.