23 (p. 145).--Joseph de Acosta, born 1540, at Medina del Campo, near Valladolid, Spain, entered the Jesuit order in his fourteenth year, and devoted himself to the study of sacred and classical literature. In 1570, he sailed to the New World, with other Jesuit brethren, spending thirteen years in Peru, and nearly four in Mexico, in missionary and literary labors. In Peru, he resided partly at Lima, and partly at Juli, near Lake Titicaca, then the principal seat of the Jesuits, where a college was established, the native language studied, and a printing-press erected; here was printed, in 1611, Bertonio's Aymara dictionary. Acosta returned to Spain in 1587, and soon began the publication of his manuscripts. The most important of these is the _Historia natural y moral de las Indias_ (Seville, 1590); two books of which were earlier published in Latin (Salamanca, 1588). This is considered by modern historians a valuable and authoritative account of the New World and of the Mexican and Peruvian nations. It was translated into Dutch, by Van Linschoten (Enckhuysen, 1598); into French, by Regnauld (Paris, 1597); into German, by De Bry (Frankfort, 1601); and into English, by Grimston (London, 1604). Acosta was head of the Jesuits' college at Valladolid, and, later, of that at Salamanca, where he died February 15, 1600. His brother Bernardo also became a Jesuit; was a resident of the City of Mexico in 1586, dying there May 29, 1613. For a fuller account of the former's life and works, see Introduction to Hakluyt Society's translation of his _Historia natural y moral_ (London, 1880). 24 (p. 149).--_Angelic Salutation_: the salutation, "Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum," with which the archangel greeted the Virgin when he announced to her that she was to become the mother of Christ.--See Lee's _Glossary of Liturg. and Eccl. Terms_. 25 (p. 151).--The apparent omission of chap. xi., arising from a typographical error, is explained in the "Bibliographical Data," _ante_. The _Factum_ alluded to was a controversial pamphlet "written and published against the Jesuits." The only copy known to us is in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. It was reprinted in 1887, with an introduction by G. Marcel, under the title, _Factum du procés entre Jean de Biencourt et les Pères Biard et Massé, Jésuites_: pp. xix-91. The publication was anonymous, but its authorship has been ascribed by many to Lescarbot. The succeeding six chapters of the present _Relation_ are devoted by Biard to answering the _Factum_.--See Rochemonteix's _Jésuites_, vol. i., pp. 81-82. 26 (p. 161).--See vol. ii., _notes_ 42, 59. 27 (p. 161).--See vol. i., _note_ 2. 28 (p. 165).--See vol. i., _note_ 25. 29 (p. 165).--See vol. i., _notes_ 31, 37. 30 (p. 169).--See vol. i., _notes_ 35, 36. 31 (p. 173).--In the Edict of Nantes, the Huguenots are referred to as followers of _la religion prétendue réformée_. Upon the significance of this term, see _Atlantic Monthly_, vol. lxxvi., p. 414.