[7] Strobo. lib. iii.—Plutarch.
[8] Pliny's Natural History, lib. vi, cap. 37.
[9] See p. 137.
[10] Prince Henry the Navigator, p. 137.
[11] After this mention by Pliny, the Canaries, or Fortunate Isles, are lost sight of for a period of thirteen hundred years. In the reign of Edward III of England, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, one Robert Machin sailed from Bristol for France, carrying away a lady of rank, who had eloped with him, and was driven by a storm to the Canaries, where he landed, and thus rediscovered the lost Fortunate Isles. This fact is curiously established by Major, in the Life of Prince Henry, so that it can no longer be regarded as an idle tale (see pp. 66-77). In 1341, a voyage was also made to the Canaries, under the auspices of King Henry of Portugal. The report, so widely circulated by De Barros, that the islands were rediscovered by Prince Henry is therefore incorrect. His expedition reached Porto Santo and Madeira in 1418-20.
[12] He also speculates upon the probability of this continent having been visited by Christian missionaries. See vol. vi, p. 410.
[13] Kingsborough's Mexican Antiquities, vol. vi, p. 285.
[14] Ibid., p. 332.
[15] Monastikon Britannicum, pp. 131-2-187-8. The fact that the word America is here used, seems quite sufficient to upset the legend.
[16] The Irish were early known as Scots, and O'Halloran derives the name from Scota, high priest of Phœnius, and ancestor of Mileseuis.