[24] Grau y Monfalcón evidently made use of Leonardo de Argensola's _Conqvistas de las Islas Malvcas_ in this review of Oriental commerce. [25] Referring to Ptolemy Neus Dionysus, surnamed Auletes ("the Flute-player"), who ruled over Egypt from b. c. 80 to 51. One of his daughters was the famous Cleopatra VI, who so infatuated the Roman Cæsar and Antony. [26] This date in the manuscript is 1457, which is misprinted 1417 in the reprint of 1866 (_Doc. inéd._). [27] See Sir Henry Middleton's _Voyage to Bantam_ (Hakluyt Society's publications, London, 1855); that voyage took place in 1604-06. [28] This word is missing in the manuscript. [29] The cate is equivalent to 1.8 English pounds; 87 pounds equal one quintal, 100 catés one pico, and 40 picos one koyan (_Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceanía_, vi, p. 390, note). [30] See the description and prices of precious stones found in the appendix to Duarte Barbosa's _East Africa and Malabar_ (Hakluyt Society's publications, London, 1866), pp. 208-218. [31] Apparently referring to some plant of the genus _Strychnos_, several species of it having the reputation of curing the bites of serpents. Blanco says (_Flora_, p. 61) that he himself has witnessed several cures by this means. [32] A dried fruit, resembling a prune, which contains tannin; formerly used in medicine, now mainly in tanning and dyeing. It is the product of various species of _Terminalia_. [33] The manuscript is mutilated at this point, and contains only the first part of this name, "Vera." [34] The manuscript reads "29." [35] Apparently an error for "November;" see vol. xvii, p. 252. [36] Cf. Heredia's list (1618?) of Dutch factories and posts, vol. xviii, pp. 107-110; and Los Rios's mention of them, vol. xix, pp. 288-290. [37] Tacomma, where the Dutch erected Fort Willemstadt. [38] This word is omitted in the manuscript. [39] The capital of the island of Gilolo bears the same name. Batochina is properly a part of the island (_Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceanía_, vi, p. 400, note 1). [40] The island of Amboina was discovered about 1515 by the Portuguese, and taken by the Dutch February 23, 1603. See _Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceanía_, vi, p. 400, note 2. [41] This word is lacking in the manuscript. [42] See, in Vols. V and VI of this series, the ordinance of May 5, 1583, giving form to the Audiencia, the establishment of which was decreed by royal order of the above date (March 5). [43] An imaginary money used in the Indias, which serves as a standard for valuing the ingots of silver; it is differentiated from the value of the real-of-eight, or coined peso, in order to allow for the amount of seigniorage and other expenses at the mint. (Dominguez's _Dict. nac. lingua española_.) In Morga's time the governor received eight thousand pesos de minas annually (see Vol. XVI, p. 188; also II, p. 97, note 43). [44] Spanish, _santas_; one would expect _sanativas_, "healing."