[40] Mar dulce, the Marañón.
[41] Thus was the mighty river Amazon discovered by this inhuman traitor.
[42] Jatropha manihot, an edible root.
[43] Shoes or sandals used by the Basques, made of grass.
[44] Garcilaso omits all mention of this detached expedition of Pineda but Herrera gives a brief account of it.
[45] Almagro's son.
[46] Others say a cap with a gold medal having a silver fig embossed upon it, and a motto—"For the men of Chile."
[47] This should be Alonso de Peña, brother-in-law of Pascual de Andagoya. When Andagoya left Panamá to take possession of his government, he sent Peña to Santo Domingo, to collect more troops, horses, and stores. See my translation of Andagoya's narrative, Introduction, p. xxvi (Hakluyt Society's [vol. 34], for 1865).
[48] Buenaventura, the port of Cali, was founded by Juan Ladrillo, under orders from the Adelantado Pascual de Andagoya, who had received the government of the coast thence to Panamá. The municipality of Cali ordered that six or seven settlers should reside there to arrange for the landing of merchandize and its transmission across the mountains to Cali. The pilots with Vaca de Castro certainly showed great want of intelligence in not being able to find it (see [Cieza de León] , p. 105, Hakluyt Society's vol. 33, for 1864)
[49] The Marquis Pizarro's secretary.