[104] {81} [Stanzas lxxxviii.-xciii., which record the battles of Barossa (March 5, 1811) and Albuera (May 16, 1811), and the death of Byron's school-friend Wingfield (May 14, 1811), were written at Newstead in August, 1811, and take the place of four omitted stanzas (_q.v. supra_).] [105] [Francisco Pizarro (1480-1541), with his brothers, Hernando, Juan Gonzalo, and his half-brother Martin de Alcantara, having revisited Spain, set sail for Panama in 1530. During his progress southward from Panama, he took the island of Puna, which formed part of the province of Quito. His defeat and treacherous capture of Atuahalpa, King of Quito, younger brother of Huascar the Supreme Inca, took place in 1532, near the town of Caxamarca, in Peno (_Mod. Univ. History_, 1763, xxxviii. 295, _seq._). Spain's weakness during the Napoleonic invasion was the opportunity of her colonies. Quito, the capital of Ecuador, rose in rebellion, August 10, 1810, and during the same year Mexico and La Plata began their long struggle for independence.] [106] {82} [During the American War of Independence (1775-83), and afterwards during the French Revolution, it was the custom to plant trees as "symbols of growing freedom." The French trees were decorated with "caps of Liberty." No such trees had ever been planted in Spain. (See note by the Rev. E.C. Everard Owen, _Childe Harold_, 1897, p. 158.)] [dk] _And thou, my friend! since thus my selfish woe_ {_to weaken in_ _Bursts from my heart,_ {_however light my strain,_ {_for ever light the_----.--[D.] _Had the sword laid thee, with the mighty, low_ _Pride had forbade me of thy fall to plain_.--[MS. D.] [107] [Compare the In Memoriam stanzas at the end of Beattie's _Minstrel_--"And am I left to unavailing woe?" II. 63, line 2.] [dl] {83} ----_belov'd the most_.--[MS. D.] [108] [With reference to this stanza, Byron wrote to Dallas, October 25, 1811 (_Letters_, 1898, ii. 58, 59), "I send you a conclusion to the _whole_. In a stanza towards the end of Canto I. in the line, "Oh, known the earliest and _beloved_ the most, I shall alter the epithet to '_esteemed_ the most.'"] [dm] ----_where none so long was dear_.--[MS. D.] [dn] _And fancy follow to_----.--[MS. D.] [109] "Fytte" means "part."--[Note erased.] * * * * * NOTES TO CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. CANTO I. 1. Yes! sighed o'er Delphi's long deserted shrine. Stanza i. line 6. The little village of Castri stands partially on the site of Delphi. Along the path of the mountain, from Chrysso, are the remains of sepulchres hewn in and from the rock:--"One," said the guide, "of a king who broke his neck hunting." His majesty had certainly chosen the fittest spot for such an achievement.