[30] Copyright 1892 and by permission of the author.
[31] Lope de Vega has been variously termed the "Center of Fame," the "Darling of Fortune," and the "Phœnix of the Ages," by his admiring compatriots. His was a most fertile brain; his a most fecund pen. A single day sufficed to compose a versified drama.
[32] By permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Publishers.
[33] For the above particulars and inscription the compiler desires to acknowledge his obligation to the Hon. Thomas Adamson, U. S. Consul General at Panama, and Mr. George W. Clamman, the able clerk of the U. S. Consulate in the city of Colon.
[34] Copernicus has also been so styled.
[35] Señor Emilio Castelar, the celebrated Spanish author and statesman, in his most able series of articles on Columbus in the Century Magazine, derides the fact of an actual mutiny as a convenient fable which authors and dramatists have clothed with much choice diction.
[36] Galileo, the great Italian natural philosopher, is here referred to by the author.
[37] By permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Publishers.
[38] By permission of Messrs. Ginn & Co., Publishers.
[39] The Rock of Gibraltar is referred to.