- E.
[17] This is merely a repetition of the _big bones_ of Mexico and the Ohio,
already referred to the Mammoth, or animal ignotum. - E.
[18] Puna is in the bay of Guayaquil, in lat. 3 deg. S. and is near _thirty_
leagues in circumference, being about _ten_ leagues long by five in
breadth. - E.
[19] The estimate in the text is exceedingly erroneous. The city of Parto
is in lat. 1 deg. 12' N. and the Rio de Loa, or commencement of the desert
of Atacama, in lat. 21 deg. 26' S. which give only a difference of nearly
25 degrees of latitude, which at 17-1/2 Spanish leagues to the degree
are only 438 leagues. Even supposing the text to include Chili, which
extends to 39 deg. 21' S. the whole extent of Peru and Chili is only 753
Spanish leagues. - E.
[20] This is only to be understood of the period when Zarate wrote, about
the middle of the sixteenth century, or two hundred and fifty years
ago. The first town he enumerates, Puerto Viejo, is now in the
viceroyalty of New Granada. - E.
[21] The wool-bearing animals of Peru, improperly named sheep, are one or
other of the species of camel already mentioned in a former note. - E.
[22] Instead of _four_ degrees, Quito is only the _fourth_ part of a
degree beyond the line. - E.
[23] Bracamoras, or Jaen de Bracamoras, in lat. 5 deg. 30' S. is in the
district or province of Jaen in the kingdom of New Granada, on one of
the branches of the Lauricocha or Tanguragua, which is one of the
great rivers which contribute to form the vast Maranon, or river of
the Amazons. - E.
[24] No place of that name is now found in our best maps. The principal
town of the district of Chachapoyas has the same name, otherwise
called St Juan de la Frontera. - E.
[25] Not far to the south of San Leon de Guanuco, in the mountains of
Lauricocha, there are considerable silver mines. - E.
[26] No such place is now found on our maps in the province of Guamanga;
but the ruins of a town named Vittoria are marked in the district of
Calca, about fifty miles north-west from the city of Cuzco. Perhaps
the Vittoria of the text is the town now called Guamanga. - E.
[27] Probably the country of the people now called _Chunchos_, who are
implacable enemies to the Spaniards. - E.
[28] Probably the province now called _Chicas_ on the eastern side of the
Andes, occupying the head of the river Chirivionas which joins the
Paraguay or Rio Plata. - E.
[29] Off the mouth of the river Lurin, in lat.
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[16] A good deal more is said of these giants, both by Zarate and
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