Footnote 572: The length of Cuba from Cape Mayzi to Cape San Antonio is about 700 English miles. But in following the sinuosities of the coast, and including tacks, the estimate of these pilots was probably not far from correct.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 573: "É cortada la lengua;" "y le cortarian la lengua." Irving understands it to mean cutting off the tongue. But in those days of symbolism slitting the tip of that unruly member was a recognized punishment for serious lying.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 574: It is printed in full in Navarrete, torn. ii. pp. 143-149.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 575: It is given upon La Cosa's map; see below, vol. ii., frontispiece.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 576: Hispaniola continued, however, for many years to be commonly identified with Cipango. See note D on Ruysch's map, 1508, below, vol. ii. p. 114.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 577: See above, p. [417].[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 578: Las Casas, Hist. de las Indias, tom. ii. p. 80.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 579: See below, vol. ii. pp. 433, 434.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 580: The first of a series of such schemes in American history, including those of Sassacus, Philip, Pontiac, and to some extent Tecumseh.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 581: The Indians then living upon the island did not dig, but scraped up the small pieces of gold that were more or less abundant in the beds of shallow streams.[Back to Main Text]