Page 14. Pedro Gutierrez. Pilot of the Santa Maria.
Page 14. Sanchez of Segovia. Roderigo Sanchez, inspector-general of the armament.
Page 16. A Castilla y á Leon. "To Castile and Leon Columbus gave a new world." This was the motto annexed to the coat of arms granted to Columbus.
Page 21. The shining Cèpango. Cipango was the name given by Marco Polo to an island east of Asia, supposed to be the modern Japan. It was Cipango which Columbus and all the voyagers for half a century after him were seeking.
Page 25. Old Las Casas. Bartolomé de las Casas (1474-1566), a Spanish Dominican, celebrated as a defender of the Indians against their Spanish conquerors.
Page 30. Moscoso. Luis de Moscoso, who took charge of the expedition after De Soto's death.
Page 30. Six thousand of our foemen. The native loss was greatly exaggerated. It probably did not exceed five hundred.
Page 30. And eighty-two of Spain. The Spanish loss was 170. The scene of the battle is supposed to have been what is now known as Choctaw Bluff, in Clarke County, Alabama.
Page 31. The cities of the Zuñi. Coronado's expedition reached Cibola early in July, 1540, and a few days later carried it by storm and subdued the whole district, but found no treasure. A detailed account of the expedition will be found in Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America," ii, 473-503.
Page 34. Good Bernard. Bernard of Cluny, a French Benedictine monk of the twelfth century, author of "De Contemptu Mundi," popularly known through Neale's translation, "Jerusalem the Golden."