[1460] [See ante, p. 287.—Ed.]
[1461] Senate Executive Documents, No. 41, 30th Congress, 1st Session, 1848.
[1462] Senate Executive Documents, No. 64, 31st Congress, 1st Session, 1850.
[1463] Cf. also Journal of the American Geographical Society, vol. v. p. 194, and Geographical Magazine (1874), vol. i. p. 86.
[1464] This is his North Mexican States, vol. i. pp. 27, 71-76, 82-87, which is at present his chief treatment of the subject. He touches it incidentally in his Central America, vol. i. p. 153; Mexico, vol. ii. pp. 293, 465-470; California, vol. i. p. 8; Northwest Coast, vol. i. pp. 44-46; but he promises more detailed treatment in his volumes on New Mexico and Arizona, which are yet to be published.
[1465] See Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., October, 1857, and October, 1878.
[1466] No attempt is made to establish a theory in another recent compendium, Shipp’s De Soto and Florida ch. vii.
[1467] [Cf. Markham’s Royal Commentary of G. de la Vega, vol. i. chap. iv. Kohl says that the name “Peru” first occurs in Ribero’s map (1529), and that his delineations of the coast of Peru were made probably after Pizarro’s first reports.—Ed.]
[1468] Nombre de Dios was abandoned on account of its unhealthy situation, in the reign of Philip II., and Puerto Bello then became the chief port on the Atlantic side.
[1469] [Authorities do not agree on the date of his birth, placing it between the years 1470 and 1478. Prescott, i. 204. Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., p. 317.—Ed.]