- 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. We shall find afterwards that the Spaniards found out the means of counteracting the perpetual eastern trade winds of the Pacific within the tropics, by shaping a more northerly course from the Philippine islands, where they established the staple of their Indian commerce, between Acapulco and Manilla. - E.

[65] Galvano certainly mistakes here in assigning Tecoantepec, which is at least 340 miles from the nearest part of the bay of Honduras. If a navigation were practicable from Tecoantepec, it would more probably be towards Tabasco, at the bottom of the bay of Campechy. Perhaps he ought to have said from Guatimala to the gulf of Dolse, at the bottom of the bay of Honduras. This splendid navigation between the Atlantic and Pacific, within the tropics, like that between the Mediterranean and Red Sea, still remains an unsolved problem. It will be resumed hereafter, among the voyages and travels to Spanish America. - E.

[66] These seem all to have been brothers to Pizarro, and named from the town of Alcantara in Spain. - E.

[67] The mouth of the Maranon is exactly under the line. - E.

[68] The latitude of Cusco is only 13 deg. 30' S. - E.

[69] Gomar. Hist. Gen. V. vi. vii. viii. ix

[70] Gomar. Hist. Gen. V. xvi. xviii. xix.

[71] So named from the two brothers, Caspar and Michael Cortereal, who are said to have been lost on this coast of North America in 1500, as formerly mentioned by Galvano. - E.

[72] Xalis, or Xalisco, the residence of Gusman is in lat. 21 deg.45'N. The mouth of the river St Francis, on the north-eastern shore of the gulf of California, is in lat. 26 deg. 40' N. so that the discovery on the present occasion seems to have comprised about 350 miles to the north of Xalis. - E.

[73] Gomar. Hist. Gen. II. Lxxiv. xcviii.

[74] Xauxa or Jauja, stands on the high table land of Peru; Lima, or de los Reys, near the coast of the South Sea, in the maritime valley, or low country, and on the river Rimac, called Lima in the text. - E.

[75] Gomar. Hist. Gen. IV. xxiii. and V. xxii.

[76] Gomar. H. G. V. xxiv. and xxv. Almagro appears, both on his march to Chili and back to Cusco, to have gone by the high mountainous track of the Andes, and the carcases of his dead horses must have been preserved from corruption amid the ever during ice and snow of that elevated region. - E.

[77] The text seems ambiguous, and it appears difficult to say whether Galvano means, that Cosesofar, or Coje Sofar, was captain under D'Acunha, or general of the Guzerat army, belonging to Badu.

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