[129-1] Columbus’s conviction that he has reached the Indies is registered by his use from now on of the word “Indians” for the people.
[130-1] This should be, “The mouth of the river is 12 fathoms deep and it is wide enough,” etc.
[131-1] Bledos. The French translators give cresson sauvage, wild cress, as the equivalent.
[131-2] Las Casas, I. 320, says Columbus understood “that from these to the mainland would be a sail of ten days by reason of the notion he had derived from the chart or picture which the Florentine sent him.”
[131-3] Baracoa (Las Casas); Puerto Naranjo (Markham); Nipe (Navarrete); Nuevitas (Thacher).
[132-1] Punta de Mulas. (Navarrete.)
[132-2] Punta de Cabañas. (Navarrete.)
[132-3] Puerto de Banes. (Navarrete.)
[132-4] Puerto de las Nuevitas del Principe. (Navarrete.)
[132-5] Las Casas, I. 321, has “many heads well carved from wood.” Possibly these were totems.