[363-3] The circle of the horizon, represented by the compass card, was conceived of as divided into eight winds and each wind into halves and quarters, the quarters corresponding to the modern points of the compass, which are thirty-two in number. The declination observed was two points of the compass, or 22° 30'.
[363-4] See above, [p. 329, note 2].
[364-1] An arroba was twenty-five pounds.
[364-2] Estoraque, officinal storax, a gum used for incense.
[364-3] Cf. Marco Polo, bk. III., ch. II.
[364-4] Pita, the fibre of the American agave.
[365-1] Cf. the letter on the Third Voyage, Major, Select Letters of Columbus, p. 140, for Columbus’s reasoning and beliefs about the Earthly Paradise or Garden of Eden; for Las Casas’s discussion of the question, see Historia de las Indias, II. 275-306.
[365-2] High sail.
[366-1] The rack was used to bend the crossbow.