[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.
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