[188-2] Camino for Cabo (?). (Markham.)
[188-3] Mountain over Guarico. (Navarrete.)
[188-4] Cf. [p. 178, note].
[188-5] Bahia de Acúl. (Navarrete.)
[189-1] This conjecture proved to be wrong. The Peak of Teneriffe is over 12,000 ft. high, while 10,300 ft. (Mt. Tina) is the highest elevation in Santo Domingo.
[189-2] This is one of the passages used to determine the date of Columbus’s birth. By combining his statement quoted in the Historie of Ferdinand, ch. IV., that he went to sea at 14, and this assertion that he followed the sea steadily for 23 years, we find that he was 37 years old in 1484 or 1485, when he left Portugal and ceased sea-faring till 1492.
[189-3] A gap of a line and a half in the manuscript.
[189-4] Another gap in the manuscript.
[190-1] The mutilation of the text makes this passage difficult. The third line literally is, “and I saw all the east [or perhaps better the Levant, el Levante] and the west which means the way to England,” etc. After the second gap read: “better than the other which I with proper caution tried to describe.” After “world,” read: “and [is] enclosed so that the oldest cable of the ship would hold it fast.”
[190-2] The distance is six miles. (Navarrete.)