- E. [2] As Written By An Italian, Melcha Has The Sound Of Melka, And The Place Here Indicated Is Obviously The City Of Malacca In The Malayan Peninsula, Long A Famous Emporium For The Trade Of Eastern India And China.

- E.

[3] The Bay of Bengal and sea of China. - E.

[4] In the original these positions are thus unaccountably misrepresented, as literally translated: "Melcha is more to the west, and Calicut more to the south; being situated 33 deg. from the Antarctic pole." - E.

It would appear from some circumstances in the sequel, that this fleet was directed to visit Brazil on its way to India; and that the ultimate object of the voyage was frustrated through its early misfortunes. - E.

[5] Per suduestium, qui ventus est inter meridiem et lebeccium: Between the S. and S.W. or S.S.W. - E.

[6] Perhaps the island of St Matthew, which is nearly in the latitude indicated in the text, and about the distance mentioned from Sierra Leone; yet it is difficult to conceive how they could get there with a storm at S.S.W. as the course is S.S.E. from Sierra Leone. - E.

[7] Such is the literal meaning of the original, yet I suspect Americus here means his largest boat. - E.

[8] In the original, Omnium Sanctorum Abbatium, but which must assuredly be Bahia dos todos los Santos, in lat 13 deg. S. on the coast of Brazil. - E.

[9] The distance between the island of St Matthew, and the Bay of All Saints, is not less than 600 leagues, or thirty degrees; yet that distance might certainly be run in seventeen days with a fair wind.

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