Genoese and Amerigo Vespucci in navigating the Western Ocean....  To
    this part (of Asia) belong the territory called that of the
    Bachalaos [or Codfish, Newfoundland], Florida, the Desert of
    Lop, Tangut, Cathay, the realm of Mexico (wherein is the vast
    city of Temistitan, built in the middle of a great lake, but which
    the older travellers styled QUINSAY), besides Paria, Uraba, and
    the countries of the Canibals.” (Joannis Schoneri Carolostadtii
    Opusculum Geogr., quoted by Humboldt, Examen, V. 171, 172.)

[16] In Robert Parke’s Dedication of his Translation of Mendoza’s, London,
    1st of January, 1589, he identifies China and Japan with the regions
    of which Paulus Venetus and Sir John Mandeuill “wrote long agoe.”
    —­MS. Note by Yule.

[17] “Totius Europae et Asiae Tabula Geographica, Auctore Thoma D.
    Aucupario.  Edita Argentorati, MDXXII.”  Copied in Witsen.

[18] This strange association of Balor (i.e., Bolor, that name of so
    many odd vicissitudes, see pp. 178-179 infra) with the shut-up
    Israelites must be traced to a passage which Athanasius Kircher quotes
    from R.  Abraham Pizol (qu.  Peritsol?):  “Regnum, inquit, Belor
    magnum et excelsum nimis, juxta omnes illos qui scripserunt
    Historicos.  Sunt in eo Judaei plurimi inclusi, et illud in latere
    Orientali et Boreali,” etc. (China Illustrata, p. 49.)

[19] Vol. ii. p. 1.

[20] A short Account of Libraries of Italy, by the Hon. R. Curzon
    (the late Lord de la Zouche); in Bibliog. and Hist.  Miscellanies;
    Philobiblon Society, vol. i, 1854, pp. 6. seqq.

[21] P. del Natali was Bishop of Equilio, a city of the Venetian Lagoons,
    in the latter part of the 14th century. (See Ughelli, Italia Sacra,
    X. 87.) There is no ground whatever for connecting him with these
    inventions.  The story of the glass types appears to rest entirely and
    solely on one obscure passage of Sansovino, who says that under the
    Doge Marco Corner (1365-1367):  “certe Natale Veneto lascio un libro
    della materie delle forme da giustar intorno alle lettere, ed il modo
    di formarle di vetro.”  There is absolutely nothing more.  Some kind of
    stencilling seems indicated.

[22] History of Printing in China and Europe, in Philobiblon, vol. vi.
    p. 23.

[23] See Appendix L. in First Edition.

[24] Ramusio himself appears to have been entirely unconscious of it,
    vide supra, p. 3

[25] This subject has been fully treated in Cathay and the Way Thither.

XIV.  EXPLANATIONS REGARDING THE BASIS ADOPTED FOR THE PRESENT TRANSLATION.