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FOOTNOTES:
[1] While we may look for the former treasure region in Sumatra, the latest researches make it probable that Ophir represented not only Sofala, but also the coasts and interior of East Africa south of it, including Mozambique, Monomotapa, and the country of the ruins of Zimbabue (Mashonaland). This conclusion appears more credible than the opinion persistently maintained by Montesino that Ophir was Peru. The difficulties of a long sea-voyage from Ezion-Geber to the western coast of South America would be partly removed if we could accept Professor Haeckel’s hypothesis of a continent of Lemuria having once stood in the Indian Ocean, and should also suppose the Western Atlantis to have existed—which the natives of Australia sought in the eastern part of their quarter of the globe.
[2] Journal of the Admiral, published by Navarrete, from the “Historia apologética de las Indias” of Bartolomeo de Las Casas, MSS. at Madrid.
[3] Decada iii.
[4] Emeralds may also have been shown to the Spaniards then; for in the capitulation with Ojeda, on his second voyage, July 5, 1501, islands are mentioned, near Quiquevacoa, on the mainland, where the green stones were of which specimens had been brought to him. Quiquevacoa, or Coquivacoa, was the Indian name for the country around the Gulf of Venezuela.
[5] The name of “The Rich Coast,” Costa Rica, is still attached to that part of Central America north of Chiriqui.
[6] Ojeda and Diego de Nicuesa.
[7] Quintana, and Herrera, dec. i. lib. x. cap. iii.