[172]: Journal of Porras, Navarrete, Colec., tom. i.
[173]: Letter from Jamaica.
[174]: Testimony of Pedro de Ledesma. Pleito de los Colones.
[175]: Letter from Jamaica.
[176]: Idem.
[177]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 100. Letter of Columbus from Jamaica.
[178]: Hist. del Almirante. Journal of Porras.
[179]: Relacion por Diego Mendez. Navarrete, torn. i.
[180]: Relacion por Diego Mendez. Navarrete, Colec, torn. i.
[181]: Joachim, native of the burgh of Celico, near Cozenza, traveled in the Holy Land. Returning to Calabria, he took the habit of the Cistercians in the monastery of Corazzo, of which he became prior and abbot, and afterwards rose to higher monastic importance. He died in 1202, having attained 72 years of age, leaving a great number of works; among the most known are commentaries on Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Apocalypse. There are also prophecies by him, "which," (says the Dictionnaire Historique,) "during his life, made him to be admired by fools, and despised by men of sense; at present the latter sentiment prevails. He was either very weak or very presumptuous, to flatter himself that he had the keys of things of which God reserves the knowledge to himself."—Dict. Hist., tom. 5, Caen, 1785.