[256-1] This may have been her brother, the Duke of Bejar, afterwards King Manoel.
[256-2] Espadim: a Portuguese gold piece coined by João II. Las Casas, I. 466, says: “20 Espadinos, a matter of 20 ducats.” The Espadim contained 58 to 65 grains of gold. W. C. Hazlitt, Coinage of European Nations, sub voce. King João II. gave Columbus’s pilot almost exactly the sum which Henry VII. gave to John Cabot, which was £10. In the French translation and the translation in J. B. Thacher’s Christopher Columbus the word espadines is erroneously taken to be Spanish and rendered “Épées,” and “small short swords.”
[257-1] Having been absent 225 days.