[3] This was Fray Martin de Leon, according to Santa Ines (Cronica, ii, p. 270).

[4] Food prepared from the sago-palm (see Vol.  IV, p. 276).

[5] Husk of the cocoa-nut (Retana’s edition of Zuniga’s Estadismo, ii, p. 449*).

[6] Ketchil, a Malay word signifying “little, young;” hence a young man of distinction, a son or brother of the Molucca princes:  in Amboina it is the designation of the heir-apparent.  Marsden’s Dictionary, cited by Stanley, in his translation of Morga (Hakluyt Soc. publications), p. 59.

[7] The salambao is a raft of reeds or bamboo; on which is erected an apparatus not unlike the mast and yard of a square-rigged ship.  To one end of the yard is attached a net which may be raised from and lowered into the water.  This contrivance is called by the natives timba.  See full description of the salambao, and of other native modes of fishing, in Zuniga’s Estadismo (Retana’s ed.), i, pp. 199, 200; and illustration of this apparatus in F. Jagor’s Travels in the Philippines (London, 1875), p. 47.

[8] “The black people or Caffares of the land of Mozambique, and all the coast of Ethiopia and within the land to the Cape de Bona Speranza.” ...  “The Portingales do make a living by buying and selling of them” (Linschoten’s Voyage (Hakluyt Soc. trans., London, 1885), vol. i, pp. 269, 277).

[9] Blanca:  half a maravedi, equivalent to nearly one mill in U.S. money.

[10] A law dated 1556 provides that jettisons are to be reckoned as risks in common, and to be distributed among ship, freight-money, and cargo.  See Recop. leyes Indias (ed. 1841), lib. ix, tit. xxxix, ley x.

[11] Apparently referring to Fray Marcelo de Rivadeneira, one of the Franciscans who went to Japan with Pedro Baptista.  Rivadeneira wrote a book, Historia de las islas del Archipielago, etc. (Barcelona, M.DC.I), which describes the countries of Eastern Asia, and relates the history of Franciscan missions therein.

[12] In the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla, is a document which contains the following statement:  “I, Captain Joan de Bustamante, accountant and official judge of the royal exchequer of the Filipinas islands, certify that, according to the books, accounts, and papers of the office and records of the said royal exchequer, it is not, since the past year of fifteen hundred and eighty-one, when the cathedral church of this city was founded by Don Fray Domingo de Salazar, first bishop of these islands, up to the present year of fifteen hundred and ninety-nine, evident nor apparent that there have been given from the royal exchequer to the said church any bells, images, ornaments, chalices, candelabra, missals, or choir-books for the service thereof; nor has there been paid over for that purpose any coins of gold, as appears by the said books and papers to which I refer.  In certification whereof, and that this may be apparent, I have, on the petition of the dean and chapter, sede vacante, given these presents in Manila on the fifth of July of the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine.”