[58] “Historia del reyno de Quito.”
[59] The third of the able monsters of that name who lived in South America in the middle of the sixteenth century.
[60] “Noticias historiales” Part I., Noticia VI., cap. i.
[61] Cap. xviii.
[62] Cap. xxiii.
[63] “Hist. Nat. general de las Indias,” lib. ii. cap. vi.
[64] The Bay of Santa Cruz, in the present State of Florida, appears to have been the point where Narvaez landed.
[65] This province comprised the undefined northwest of Mexico, while New Biscay included the northeast, on the coast of the Mexican gulf.
[66] Mar del Sur, the Pacific Ocean, in distinction from Mar del Norte, the Northern Sea, the name by which the Atlantic Ocean was known in the sixteenth century.
[67] Particularly the first syllable, Bac, a corruption of Bat Ki—old house—as it often appears in the names of places in Arizona, e.g., San Xavier del Bac, Tubac, etc.