[1569] An account of an earlier expedition by Federmann in this region, Indianische Historia, recounting experiences in 1529-1531, was printed in 1557 at Hagenaw. Ternaux, in the first volume of his Voyages, etc. (Paris, 1837), gave a translation of it, with an introduction. His route, as marked by Klunzinger in the book already cited, is not agreed to by Dr. Moritz Weinhold, in Uber Nicolaus Federmann’s Reise in Venezuela, 1529-1531, printed in the Dritter Jahresbericht des Vereins für Erdkunde zu Dresden, 1866, Anhang, p. 93; also in 1868.
[1570] Fac-simile of engraving in Herrera, iii. 213.
[1571] He is sometimes called Uten, Utre, Urra, etc.
[1572] Introduction of his Search for Eldorado.
[1573] Manuscript copies of these parts are in the Lenox Library.
[1574] Cf. Markham’s introduction to this volume; H. H. Bancroft’s Central America, ii. 61. The Expedition of Orsua and the Crime of Aguirre, by Robert Southey, was published at London in 1821. This was written for Southey’s History of Brazil, but was omitted as beyond its scope, and first published in the Edinburgh Annual Register, vol. iii. part 2, and then separately.
[1575] Ticknor, Spanish Literature, ii. 471. There are copies in the Boston Public, Harvard College, and Lenox libraries.
[1576] Printed at Amberes in 1688; Cf. Carter-Brown, vol. ii. no. 1,364. There are copies in Harvard College and Lenox libraries. Cf. H. H. Bancroft, Central America, ii. 62. The book is worth £5 to £10. Only the Parte primera was printed; it comes down to 1563.
[1577] There are copies in the Lenox and Harvard College libraries.
[1578] Search for Eldorado, p. xliii.