[26] Guayaquil, in an attempt at phonetic spelling.
[27] In modern phrase, southwest by west.
[28] Coiba or Quibo is a large island off the south coast of the isthmus, about 150 miles west of Panama.
[29] Rio Santa Lucía. The town is the present Remedios.
[30] Mestizo, halfbreed, Spanish and Indian.
[31] According to Ringrose, the ring came from the bishop, the challenge from the governor.
[32] The Isla de Plata (Island of Silver) lies a few miles off the coast of Ecuador, in 1° 10´ S. lat. The Galápagos lie not 100 but more than 200 leagues off the coast.
[33] Gorgona, off the Colombian coast.
[34] I.e., when the ship had been careened she remained so fixed in that position that the men could not, by the breadth of one of her planks, get her keel where they could work on it.
[35] In other words, there was a tide of twelve feet.