Footnote 552: Not for "the New World," as Irving carelessly has it in his Columbus, vol. i. p. 346. No such phrase had been thought of in 1493, or until long afterward.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 553: Herrera, Hist. de las Indias, decad. i. lib. ii. cap. 5.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 554: Vita dell' Ammiraglio, cap. xliv.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 555: He went as astronomer, from which we may perhaps suppose that scientific considerations had made him one of the earliest and most steadfast upholders of Columbus's views.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 556: See Harrisse, Christophe Colomb, tom. ii. pp. 55, 56; Las Casas, Hist. de las Indias, tom. i. p. 498; Fabié, Vida de Las Casas, Madrid, 1879, tom. i. p. 11; Oviedo, Hist. de las Indias, tom. i. p. 467; Navarrete, Coleccion de viages, tom. ii. pp. 143-149.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 557: "E con questo preparamento il mercoledé ai 25 del mese di settembre dell' anno 1493 un' ora avanti il levar del sole, essendovi io e mio fratel presenti, l' Ammiraglio levò le ancore," etc. Vita dell' Ammiraglio, cap. xliv.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 558: Eight sows were bought for 70 maravedis apiece, and "destas ocho puercas se han multiplicado todos los puercos que, hasta hoy, ha habido y hay en todas estas Indias," etc. Las Casas, Historia, tom. ii. p. 3.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 559: The relation of this second voyage by Dr. Chanca may be found in Navarrete, tom. i. pp. 198-241; an interesting relation in Italian by Simone Verde, a Florentine merchant then living in Valladolid, is published in Harrisse, Christophe Colomb, tom. ii. pp. 68-78. The narrative of the curate of Los Palacios is of especial value for this voyage.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 560: Martyr, Epist. cxlvii. ad Pomponium Lætum; cf. Odyssey, x. 119; Thucyd. vi. 2.—Irving (vol. i. p. 385) finds it hard to believe these stories, but the prevalence of cannibalism, not only in these islands, but throughout a very large part of aboriginal America, has been superabundantly proved.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 561: For an instance of 400 hostile Indians fleeing before a single armed horseman, see Vita dell' Ammiraglio, cap. lii.; Las Casas, Hist. tom. ii. p. 46.[Back to Main Text]