E. - E.
[82] This strange expression is quite inexplicable, and must have been
misunderstood by Hakluyt. - E.
[83] Probably Morty, of our present maps. - E.
[84] Chron. del Peru, c. ix, xx.
[85] Ramus. III. 356.
[86] This obviously refers to an inaccurate description of the Babyroussa.
- E.
[87] Gomar. H. G. II. lxiv. Ramus. III. 329.
[88] Gomar. H. G. VI. xvii.
[89] In this paragraph we have very vague indications of humming birds,
rattlesnakes, and of the animal now called Pecari. - E.
[90] Gomar. H. G. V. xxxv. and Chron. del Peru, c. 103.
[91] The word Brazil in the text obviously includes the whole flat country
to the east of the Andes, Guiana, Brazil, Paraguay, Buenos Ayres, and
Patagonia. - E.
[92] This idea, ever since the time of Lord Monboddo, has been renewed,
and occupies the attention of the explorers of Africa; links may exist,
in creation, with which we are yet unacquainted. - Clarke.
The fancy of tailed men has probably arisen from inattentive observers,
seeing people clothed in the skins of beasts, with the tails hanging
down. The natives of New South Wales wear tails in imitation of the
Kangaroo: Yet, having been closely observed, are not described as
tailed men - E.
[93] This word ought to have been _Pacos_. Of these animals, with the
Llamas and Vicugnas, different species of the camel genus, a more
extended account will occur, when we come to the particular travels in
Peru. - E.
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