[7] The negociators of the two crowns, as here related, seem to have been
    ignorant that this loose division of the globe gave the whole
    reciprocally to each of the parties.—­E.

[8] The apparent object seems to have been in search of a passage to the
    East Indies by way of the north-west, a chimera long and anxiously
    sought after.  It is needless to make any observations on these
    indistinct notices, as the voyage of Cabot will be afterwards given at
    full length.—­E.

[9] The centre of Trinidada is in 10 deg. 30’N. its S.W. point in 10 deg. 12’, and
    the N.E. cape in 10 45’ N.—­E.

[10] De Barros, Dec.  I. 1. 4. c. 2. and to the end of ch. 11.—­Hakl.

[11] Osorius says this voyage commenced on the 9th of July.—­Clarke.

[12] This Panama seems a blunder of some ignorant copyist, for Panarame. 
    —­E.

[13] The coast here is nearly N. and S. and their course must have been to
    the north.—­E.

[14] The Marannon and Amazons are the same river.  Perhaps by the Rio Dolce
    the Orinoco may be meant; but in these slight notices of discovery it
    is impossible at times to ascertain the real positions, through the
    alteration of names.—­E.

[15] From the latitude indicated by Galvano, the land of Cortereal may
    have been somewhere on the eastern side of Newfoundland.—­E.

[16] Barros, Dec. 1.  I. 5. c. 10.

[17] Gomara, I. 2.

[18] About 8200 ounces, worth about L. 16,000 sterling; equal in modern
    efficacy, perhaps, to L. 100,000.—­E.

[19] Probably an error for Taprobana; the same by which Ceylon was known
    to the ancients.—­E.

[20] The Cakerlaka of other writers, which can only be large monkeys or
    baboons, called men with tails, through ignorance or imposture.—­E.

[21] Rumi still continues the eastern name of the Turkish empire, as the
    successor of the Roman emperors, in Assyria and Egypt.  Hence these
    Roman gold coins may have come in the way of trade from Assyria or
    Egypt, or may possibly have been Venetian sequins.—­E.

[22] The author must here mean Cochin China by the coast of Patane.—­E.

[23] About 1000 by 320 English miles.—­E.

[24] This story of the skull of a small insect is quite unintelligible,
    and must have been misunderstood entirely by Hakluyt, the translator: 
    It is the Elephant, probably, that is here meant.—­E.

[25] Probably the bird of Paradise.—­Clarke.

[26] P. Martyr, Dec. 3. c. 10.

[27] The island of Tararequi is in lat. 5 deg.  N.