[8] This measure is said to weigh about thirty-three English pounds, so
that the quantity mentioned in the text amounts to 1850 quarters
English measure. - Astl.
[9] I suppose he means at one crop. The quantity in the text, reduced to
avoirdupois weight, amounts to twenty-eight hogsheads, at sixteen
hundred weight each. - Astl.
[10] In Clarke, this person is named Ferrero; perhaps the right name of
this person was Fernando Pereira, who subdued Gomera and Ferro. - E.
[11] A species of moss, or lichen rather, that grows on the rocks, and is
used by dyers. - Clarke.
[12] Other authors call the natives of the Canaries _Guanchos_. - E.
SECTION II.
_Continuation of the Voyage by Cape Branco, the Coast of Barbary, and the
Fortia of Arguin; with some account of the Arabs, the Azanaghi, and the
Country of Tegazza._
Leaving the Canaries, we pursued our course towards Ethiopia, and arrived
in a few days at Cape Branco, which is about 870 miles from these islands.
In this passage, steering south, we kept at a great distance from the
African shore on our left, as the Canaries are, far-advanced into the sea
towards the west. We stood almost directly south for two-thirds of the
way between the islands and the Cape, after which we changed our course
somewhat more towards the east, or left-hand, that we might fall in with
the land, lest we should have overpassed the Cape without seeing it
because no land appears afterwards so far to the west for a considerable
space.
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