[324-4] From Pliny’s time through the Middle Ages the name Ethiopia embraced all tropical Africa. He calls the Atlantic in the tropics the “Ethiopian Sea.” Pliny’s Natural History, book VI., chs. XXXV. and XXXVI.
[325-1] A remark by Las Casas, of which many are interspersed with the material from Columbus’s Journal of this voyage.
[326-1] The Tordesillas line was 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands alone.
[326-2] This reason for the desire of King John of Portugal to have the Demarcation Line moved further west has escaped all the writers on the subject. If Columbus reported the king’s ideas correctly, we may have here a clew to one of the reasons why Cabral went so far to the southwest in 1500 that he discovered Brazil when on his voyage to India, and perhaps also one of the reasons why Vasco da Gama struck off so boldly into the South Atlantic. Cf. Bourne, Spain in America, pp. 72, 74.
[327-1] Sierra Leone.
[328-1] As one faces north.
[329-1] On Hanno’s voyage see Encyclopædia Britannica under his name. There was no Greek historian Amianus; the name should be Arrianus, who wrote the history of Alexander the Great’s expedition to India and a history of India. The reference is to the latter work, ch. XLIII., sects. 11, 12.
Ludovico Celio: Ludovico Ricchieri, born about 1450. He was for a time a professor in the Academy at Milan. He took the Latin name Rhodiginus from his birthplace Rovigo, and sometimes his name appears in full as Ludovicus Coelius Richerius Rhodiginus. His Antiquarum Lectionum Libri XVI. was published at Venice in 1516, at Paris in 1517, and in an extended form at Basel, 1542. It is a collection of passages from the classical authors relating to all branches of knowledge, with a critical commentary.
[329-2] The Guards, “the two brightest stars in Ursa Minor.” (Tolhausen.)
[329-3] Grajos. The meaning given in the dictionaries for grajo is “daw.”