[198-1] Entrance of the Bay of Acúl. (Navarrete.)
[198-2] Isla de Ratos. (Id.)
[199-1] Puerto Frances. (Navarrete.)
[199-2] Perhaps better “a young common sailor.”
[200-1] The master, who was also the owner, of the Admiral’s ship was Juan de la Cosa of Santoña, afterwards well known as a draughtsman and Pilot. (Markham.)
[200-2] Rather, “Then the seams opened but not the ship.” That is, the ship was not stove. The word translated “seams” is conventos, which Las Casas, I. 398, defines as los vagos que hay entre costillas y costillas. In this passage he is using costillas not in the technical sense of costillas de nao, “ribs,” but in the sense of “planks,” as in costillas de cuba, “barrel staves.”
[202-1] In reality Cibao was a part of Española.
[202-2] Made from the manioc roots or ajes. Cassava biscuit can be got to-day at fancy grocery stores. It is rather insipid.
[204-1] In reality, three-quarters the size of Portugal.
[204-2] Juan de la Cosa, the master, was a native of Santoña, on the north coast of Spain. There were two other Santoña men on board and several from the north coast. (Markham.)