[48] Gomar.  Conqu. de Mex. f. 226.

[49] Id. 242.  This bay reaches no farther to the S. than 148 10’ N.—­E.

[50] Id. f. 229. 230.

[51] Id. f. 233.

[52] Gomar.  Conqu. f. 234. and Hist.  Gen. III. xxi.

[53] Id:  Hist.  Gen. II. vii.

[54] In this latitude, on the shore of Costa Rica, there is a town now
    called Porto Cartago; but whether that indicated in the text it is
    difficult to say, as Galvano is not always perfectly accurate in his
    latitudes.—­E.

[55] Gomar.  Hist.  Gen. II. lxv. and Conqu. f. 243.

[56] Gomar.  Hist.  Gen. II. lxvi, and Conqu. f. 256-261.

[57] The Spanish leagues are 17-1/2 to the degree of latitude, hence this
    march exceeded 2000 English miles.—­E.  Gomar.  Hist.  Gen. II. lxvi.  Id. 
    Conqu. 246-273.

[58] Gomar.  Hist.  Gen. V. i. and ii.

[59] The ambiguity of the language is here utterly inexplicable.—­E.

[60] Meaning probably the lake of Titicaca in Peru.  It is hardly necessary
    to say that this slight survey of the Plata must be erroneous,
    especially in its reports.  The Rio San Francisco, alludes to one of
    the sources of the Great Maranon, or river of the Amazons.—­E.

[61] Ramusio, III. 310.  Ramusio gives a long and minute account of this
    unfortunate expedition, entitled, Relation made by Alvaro Nunez, of
    what befel the armament sent to the Indies (America) under Pamphilo
    Narvaez in the year 1527, to the end of 1536; when he returned to
    Seville with three only of his companions.—­Clarke.

[62] The inhabitants of this island were most probably tatooted, of
    which custom a particular description will be given hereafter, in the
    particular voyages of discovery in the South Sea.—­E.

[63] The longitudes being altogether neglected in these relations by
    Galyano, it is impossible to form any conjecture as to the islands
    indicated in text.  They may possibly have belonged to the Carolines of
    modern maps, which extend between long. 135 deg. and 180 deg.  E. and about the
    latitudes of the text.—­E.

[64] The account which Galvano gives of this voyage is very vague and
    inconclusive.  We shall find afterwards that the Spaniards found out
    the means of counteracting the perpetual eastern trade winds of the
    Pacific within the tropics, by shaping a more northerly course from
    the Philippine islands, where they established the staple of their
    Indian commerce, between Acapulco and Manilla.—­E.