[447] The MS. of the British Museum has “9”, which must be an error.
[448] Query, east.
[449] “Papahigos.”
[450] It is 37° 52′. This is the northernmost of the two islands, St. Paul’s and Amsterdam. The Dutch call the N. Island Amsterdam, and the English call it St. Paul’s in ordinary maps.
[451] The Great Fish River or the Keiskamma River.
[452] This Gomez was the alguazil who assisted Magellan so much in putting down the mutiny in the port of St. Julian.
[453] Literally, of cord and knife.
[454] Diogo Barbosa.
[455] Correa seems to have made a mistake here. Quesada helped to make Alvaro de Mezquita, Magellan’s relation, and captain of the S. Antonio, a prisoner; but what Correa relates may have been part of the plot and a stratagem of Juan de Carthagena.
[456] His name was Gonzalo Gomes de Spinosa; he returned to Spain.