FOOTNOTES
[1] Tom Jones, xvi. chap. 2, 3, etc.
[2] Prof. R. B. Anderson says, "The basin of the Charles River should be selected as the most probable scene of the visits of Leif Erikson, etc." [v. map.]
[3] As to the Irish claim for the pre-Columbian discovery of America, see also Humboldt (Cosmos, ii, 607), and Laing (Heimsk., i, 186).
[4] MS. Book of Lismore.
[5] The story is given by Humboldt and D'Avezac.
[6] Some quotations from Southey's poem are given in Chapters V, VI.
[7] The poet, however, makes the clerical blunder of writing Cortez for Balboa.
[8] Chips from a German Workshop, i, 327.
[9] Prescott, i, I, pp. 8, 9.
[10] Sahagun, Hist. de Nueva España, vi, 19.
[11] A famous group of seven small stars in the Bull constellation. The "seven sisters" appear as only six to ordinary eyesight: to make out the seventh is a test of a practised eye and excellent vision.
[12] White or Caucasian 640,000,000, yellow or Mongolian 600,000,000, black or African 200,000,000, red or American 20,000,000.
[13] See Frontispiece.
[14] D. G. Brinton.
[15] Pp. 68-70, v. p. 95.
[16] The ruins were referred to in chap, iv, (v. p. 84, also 130.)
[17] Sahagun (vi, 22) quotes the precise instructions of a father to his son: he must wash face and hands before sitting down to table, and must not leave till he has repeated the operation and cleansed his teeth.
[18] The Spanish named this handsome bird gallopavo (Lat. pavo, the "peacock"). The wild turkey is larger and more beautiful than the tame, and therefore Benjamin Franklin, when speaking sarcastically of the "American Eagle," insisted that the wild turkey was the proper national emblem.
[19] The name Montezuma means "sad or severe man," a title suited to his features, though not to his mild character.
[20] Robertson, the historian, gives £5,000; but Prescott reckons a peso de oro at £2 12s. 6d.; whence the 20,000 of the text gives 20,000 x 2-5/8 = 2,500 x 21 = £52,500.
[21] Southey (Madoc, i, 7).
[22] Not to be confounded with the Indian village on the shore of Lake Maracaibo, to which (with similar motive) Vespucci had given that name—now capital of a large republic.
[23] E.g., Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, Fletcher of Saltoun, the Marquis of Tweeddale, then chief Minister of Scotland, Sir John Dalrymple, etc.
[24] Named from boucan, a kind of preserved meat, used by those rovers. They had learned this peculiar art of preserving from the native Caribs.
[25] According to Sir C. R. Markham, F. R. S.
Transcriber's note:
The many spelling and hyphenation discrepancies in this etext are as in the original.