FOOTNOTES:
[1] This was the hurricane predicted by Columbus, as narrated in his Life by the author of this biography, and it occurred in 1502. For the further adventures of La Cosa, see the Life of Amerigo Vespucci, in this series.
[2] Calaboose, from Spanish Calabózo, a dungeon or prison.
[3] Don Manuel Josef Quintana, Vidas de Españoles Célebres.
[4] By a curious lapsus in Keat's otherwise perfect poem, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, Cortés, conqueror of Mexico, is substituted for Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific—
| "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, |
| When a new planet swims into his ken, |
| Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes |
| He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men |
| Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— |
| Silent, upon a peak in Darien." |
Cortés was never at Darien, nor nearer to it than Honduras, or Santo Domingo.