[1] Eight successive days after a festival.
[2] “The said small vessels found a reef with a port within, very fine and very secure, with a very large entrance, and they put themselves within it.” Also, “and all the ships entered and anchored in five and six fathoms, which anchorage within is so grand, so beautiful, and so secure, that there could lie within it more than two hundred ships and men of war.”
[3] “We showed them a grey parrot, which the captain had brought with him; they took it immediately into their hands. We showed them a sheep, they took no notice of it. We showed them a fowl; they were afraid of it, and would not put their hands upon it.”
[4] “I kiss the hands of your Royal Highness from this secure port of your island of Vera Cruz. To-day, Friday, first day of May, 1500. P. V. de Caminha.”
[5] “L’altro giorno che fu alli dua di Maggio del derto anno 1500 l’armata fece vela pel camino per andare alla volta del capo di Buona Speraza. Li quali comincioro no a piangere, et gli huomini di quella terra, gli confortavano, et mostravano havere di loro pieta.”—Ramuzio.
[6] “We arrived at the Cape of Good Hope at Easter-tide, and there met with good weather. We continued the voyage, and arrived at Besengue, near Cape Verd, where we met with three caravels, which the King of Portugal had sent to discover the new land, which we had found in going to Calcutta.”—From the relation of the voyage of Cabral in Ramuzio.
[7] “The relations of A. Vespuccius contain the recital of two voyages, which he made upon the same coast (the Brazil), in the name of Emanuel, King of Portugal; but the dates are false, and it is in that which the imposture consists; for it is proved by all the cotemporary testimonies, that at the time which he names he was employed upon other expeditions.”—Hist. Gen. des Voyages, tom. 14. liv. 6. c. 9. Paris, 1757.
[8] This is a corroboration of Vincente Yanez Pinson’s voyage, as the character of the Indians near those two same places where he landed are described to be similar.
[9] “The King, Don Manuel, extremely attached to Vespuccius, gave him the command of six ships, with which he sailed on the 10th of May, 1503, and passed along the coast of Africa and Brazil, with the intention of discovering a western passage to the Molucca Islands, (afterwards discovered.) “After entering the Bay of All Saints, he navigated as far as the Abrolhos and the river Curababa. As he had provisions only for twenty months, he took the resolution of returning to Portugal, where he arrived on the 18th of June, 1504.”—Murery Dicc. Grand. Paris, 1699.
[10] “Ordered immediately to be prepared another armament of caravels, which he delivered to C. Jacques, a fidalgo of his house, and with the title of Captain Mor, ordered him to continue in this undertaking of discovery. The armament sailed, and pursuing the voyage, arrived upon the coast, sounding bays and rivers, erecting pillars with the Portuguese arms upon them. He entered a bay to which he gave the name of All Saints, and after all necessary diligence he returned to Portugal.”—Cunha.