[65] Galvano certainly mistakes here in assigning Tecoantepec, which is at
    least 340 miles from the nearest part of the bay of Honduras.  If a
    navigation were practicable from Tecoantepec, it would more probably
    be towards Tabasco, at the bottom of the bay of Campechy.  Perhaps he
    ought to have said from Guatimala to the gulf of Dolse, at the bottom
    of the bay of Honduras.  This splendid navigation between the Atlantic
    and Pacific, within the tropics, like that between the Mediterranean
    and Red Sea, still remains an unsolved problem.  It will be resumed
    hereafter, among the voyages and travels to Spanish America.—­E.

[66] These seem all to have been brothers to Pizarro, and named from the
    town of Alcantara in Spain.—­E.

[67] The mouth of the Maranon is exactly under the line.—­E.

[68] The latitude of Cusco is only 13 deg. 30’ S.—­E.

[69] Gomar.  Hist.  Gen. V. vi. vii. viii. ix

[70] Gomar.  Hist.  Gen. V. xvi. xviii. xix.

[71] So named from the two brothers, Caspar and Michael Cortereal, who are
    said to have been lost on this coast of North America in 1500, as
    formerly mentioned by Galvano.—­E.

[72] Xalis, or Xalisco, the residence of Gusman is in lat. 21 deg.45’N.  The
    mouth of the river St Francis, on the north-eastern shore of the gulf
    of California, is in lat. 26 deg. 40’ N. so that the discovery on the
    present occasion seems to have comprised about 350 miles to the north
    of Xalis.—­E.

[73] Gomar.  Hist.  Gen. II.  Lxxiv. xcviii.

[74] Xauxa or Jauja, stands on the high table land of Peru; Lima, or de
    los Reys, near the coast of the South Sea, in the maritime valley, or
    low country, and on the river Rimac, called Lima in the text.—­E.

[75] Gomar.  Hist.  Gen. IV. xxiii. and V. xxii.

[76] Gomar.  H. G. V. xxiv. and xxv.  Almagro appears, both on his march to
    Chili and back to Cusco, to have gone by the high mountainous track
    of the Andes, and the carcases of his dead horses must have been
    preserved from corruption amid the ever during ice and snow of that
    elevated region.—­E.

[77] The text seems ambiguous, and it appears difficult to say whether
    Galvano means, that Cosesofar, or Coje Sofar, was captain under
    D’Acunha, or general of the Guzerat army, belonging to Badu.—­E.

[78] This probably refers to the Bore, or great and sudden influx of
    the sea, after a great recession.—­E.

[79] Gomar.  H. G. IV. xiii.

[80] Probably a mistake for La Paz, the principal town of the north-
    western district, or mining province, belonging to the Viceroyalty of
    La Plata.—­E.

[81] The only island mentioned in this voyage, which can be traced by the
    names in our modern maps, is the Piscadores, about lat. 11 deg.  N. long.
    167 deg.  E.—­E.