[C] Mother Lake.
[D] Huampu likewise signifies a canoe, and probably a ship might be named
Atun huampu, a great canoe. - E.
[1] In a note of the French edition of 1742, it is said that, in the folio
edition of Zarate printed at Seville in 1677, Luque was called the
father of Almagro, and that no mention is made of that ecclesiastic
having taken any part in the expedition. Robertson, in his History of
America, II. 273, says that Pizarro was the natural son of a gentleman
of honourable family by a low woman, and that his education was so
entirely neglected that he could neither read nor write. He adds that,
after serving some years in Italy, he embarked for America, where he
greatly distinguished himself. In our last chapter, Diaz makes
frequent mention of Pizarro as serving with reputation under Cortes,
in the early part of the expedition to Mexico; but gives no account of
his quitting the service of Cortes; to whom he was probably somehow
related, as the mother of Cortes was named Catalina Pizarro Altamirano.
Almagro, according to Robertson, was a foundling, and bred like
Pizarro in the army. Luque acted as priest and schoolmaster at Panama,
and had amassed considerable riches. - E.
[2] Named Pedrarias by Robertson. - E.
[3] Chinchama, by the map in Zarate is that part of the western coast of
Tierra Firma or Darien, opposite the Isla del Rey. The poor province
of Peru, beyond or to the southwards of Cinchama, is that now called
Biruquete; and the Pueblo quemada, or Burnt People, must be looked for
in the province of Novita, perhaps Nounamas, immediately to the south
of which is the river of St Juan.
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