[6] Some quotations from Southey's poem are given in Chapters V, VI.

[7] The poet, however, makes the clerical blunder of writing Cortez for Balboa.

[8] Chips from a German Workshop, i, 327.

[9] Prescott, i, I, pp. 8, 9.

[10] Sahagun, Hist. de Nueva España, vi, 19.

[11] A famous group of seven small stars in the Bull constellation. The "seven sisters" appear as only six to ordinary eyesight: to make out the seventh is a test of a practised eye and excellent vision.

[12] White or Caucasian 640,000,000, yellow or Mongolian 600,000,000, black or African 200,000,000, red or American 20,000,000.

[13] See Frontispiece.

[14] D. G. Brinton.

[15] Pp. 68-70, v. p. 95.