[38] See VOL. VI of this series for various documents concerning Father Alonso Sanchez's mission to Spain and Rome.
[39] San Agustín says that these walls were twelve thousand eight hundred and forty-three geometrical feet in extent, and that they were built without expense to the royal treasury.—Rizal.
[40] See references to this expedition, VOL. VIII, pp. 242, 250, 251; and VOL. XIV.
[41] This emperor, also called Hideyosi, had been a stable boy, called Hasiba.—Rizal.
See VOL. X, p. 25, note I, and p. 171, note 19; also Trans. Asiatic
Soc. (Yokohama), vols. vi, viii, ix, and xi.
[42] See VOL. VIII of this series, pp. 260-267.
[43] San Agustín [as does Argensola] says there were two hundred and fifty Chinese.—Rizal.
[44] Marikaban.—Rizal.
[45] The original is ballesteras, defined in the old dictionaries as that part of the galley where the soldiers fought.
[46] A sort of knife or saber used in the Orient.