FOOTNOTES
[1] Webster, Readings in Medieval and Modern History, chapter xxi, "The Travels of Marco Polo"; chapter xxii, "The Aborigines of the New World."
[2] Ezekiel, v, 5.
[3] Isaiah, x, 12.
[4] See pages 574-575.
[5] See page 35.
[6] See page 347.
[7] See page 488.
[8] See page 611.
[9] Froissart, Chronicles, ii, 73.
[10] See page 540.
[11] See page 49.
[12] Not Calcutta.
[13] See page 540.
[14] The Portuguese colonial empire included Ormuz, the west coast of
India, Ceylon, Malacca, and various possessions in the Malay Archipelago
(Sumatra, Java, Celebes, the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, and New Guinea).
The Portuguese also had many trading posts on the African coast, besides
Brazil, which one of their mariners discovered in 1500 A.D. See the map
Between pages 628-629.
[15] See page 573.
[16] See page 591.
[17] See page 133.
[18] A Latin translation of Ptolemy's Geography, accompanied by maps, was printed for the first time probably in 1462 A.D.
[19] See page 275.
[20] See page 560.
[21] Named San Salvador by Columbus and usually identified with Watling Island.
[22] In Latin, Americus Vespucius.
[23] In 1494 A.D., the demarcation line was shifted about eight hundred miles farther to the west. Six years later, when the Portuguese discovered Brazil, the country was found to lie within their sphere of influence.
[24] Also known as the Mariannes. Magellan called them the Ladrones (Spanish ladrón, a robber), because of the thievish habits of the natives.
[25] See page 9.
[26] Cuba, Hispaniola (now divided between the republics of Haiti and Santo Domingo), Porto Rico, and Jamaica.
[27] Spanish for the "gilded one."
[28] See the map between pages 628-629. The Philippines, discovered by Magellan in 1521 A.D., also belonged to Spain, though by the demarcation line these islands lay within the Portuguese sphere of influence.
[29] In Spanish El Camino Real.
[30] See page 355.
[31] See page 518.
[32] See page 541.