[739] Ibid. p. 44.
[740] Historia del Almirante, i. cap. 12. Washington Irving, vol. i. p. 137.
[741] Memoir of Columbus, p. 49. W. Irving, vol. i. p. 170.
[742] Capmany, vol. v. p. 58.
[743] It is now certain that Columbus heard in Iceland traditions of the voyages of Icelanders to “Vinland” (Virginia and Carolina) between the 10th and the 13th centuries.—Rafn. Antiq. American. Copenhagen, fol. 1837.
[744] Murray: London, 1830. See frontispiece.
[745] Mr. Major (“Select Letters of Columbus”) has mentioned all the known copies of this very rare tract.—Introd. p. cviii.
[746] W. Irving (Murray). Ibid. p. lxxxvii.
[747] Columbus calls his own ship the Christopher Nao; and M. Jal, who has at great length discussed the size of Columbus’s ships on his voyage, states that Nao was the usual title of an admiral’s vessel.—Arch. Nav. ii. p. 249.
[748] The letter is entitled “De Insulis inventis. Epistola Cristoferi Colom ... ad Magnificum dñm Raphaelem Sanxis ... 3 Kal. Maii, 1493,” (Grenville Collect. No. 6663).