- E. [101] Gomez, H. G. VI.

Xviii.

This story, which Galvano has reported from Genoa, seems altogether unworthy of credit. - E.

[102] The Matelots are laid down in our modern maps, in lat. 9 deg. N. Long 137 deg. E. not far E.N.E. of the Pelew, or Pillelew islands. - E.

[103] This great inland of Mindanao, to the south of the Philippines, reaches from 9 deg. 30' N. to 5 deg. 30', and from long. 122 deg. to 126 deg. 20' E. being about 300 miles long, by 270 miles broad. - E.

[104] The Philippines, exclusive of Mindanao and Palawa, extend from Lat. 9 deg. to 18 40' both N. and are in E. long. 122 but their present geographical names, Luzon, Samar, Leyte, Zebu, Negros, Pany, Mindora, and several other smaller isles, have no resemblance whatever with those of the text. - E.

[105] Gomar. H.G. IV. xiv.

[106] Probably Morty, the most north-easterly of the Moluccas. - E.

CHAPTER II.

THE JOURNEY OF AMBROSE CONTARINI, AMBASSADOR FROM THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE TO UZUN-HASSAN, KING OF PERSIA, IN THE YEARS 1473, 4, 5, AND. 6, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

INTRODUCTION.

This relation of a journey into Persia, between the years 1473 and 1477, is from a collection of voyages and travels, principally in Asia, made in the _twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth_, and _fifteenth centuries_, which was published at the Hague, in the French language, in 1735. That collection usually goes under the name of _Bergeron_, whose name appears on the title somewhat equivocally as the author; but who is mentioned in the advertisement as a writer belonging to the middle of the preceding century; and the only part of the work that can, be attributed to him, is a _Treatise of Navigation, and of the Modern Voyages of Discovery and Conquest, especially those made by the French, &c._ which serves as an introduction to this compilement.

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