[223] The name Bacallaos (according to early French writers a Basque appellation of the codfish) was also applied, by a natural extension, to the region afterward known as Canada. According to Peter Martyr, the name Bacallaos was given to those lands by Sebastian Cabot, "because of the great multitudes of fishes found in the seas thereabout." See _Jesuit Relations_ (Cleveland reissue), i, p. 308, and ii, p. 295.
[224] Fifty-six degrees west of the Canaries would be about seventy-four degrees west of Greenwich--Magellan was some ten or twelve degrees out.--_Stevens_.
[225] Among whom was Esteven Gomez; this ship was the "San Antonio."--_Steven's_.
[226] The measure of length known as a mile varies greatly in different countries. The geographical or nautical mile (one-sixtieth of a degree of the equator, and equal to 1.153 English statute miles) is used by mariners of all nations. The _milha_ of Portugal is equivalent to 1.2786 English miles; the Italian _miglio_ varies from O.6214 to 1.3835 English miles; the _legua_ (league) of Spain amounts to 4.2151 English miles.
[227] San Pablo and Tiburones. Cf. Droysen and Andree's _Historischer Hand Atlas_, 1884, Karte 83; also Admiralty Chart, Sec. xv, 767.--_Stevens_.
[228] Inarajan, now confined to the port on the southeast coast of Guajan, the southermost of the Ladrones.--_Stevens_.
[229] Acacan,_i.e._ _Sosan_-jaya, the watering place at the west end of Rota Island, north of Guajan.--_Stevens_.
[230] The Caylon of Magellan, now confined to the port on the southwest side of the island of Leyte, Philippines.--_Stevens_.
[231] The Maasin of Coello, or Masin of Admiralty Chart, Sec. xiii, 943; at south end of island of Leyte, the Selani of text.--_Stevens_.
[232] In the museum of the Colegio de Agustinos Filipinos at Valladolid, Spain, is a tablet bearing the following inscription (in English translation): "On the twenty-sixth of April, 1521, died on this spot, while fighting valiantly, Don Hernando Magallánes, general of the Spanish fleet, whose name alone is his greatest eulogy. Desiring that the memory of the place where so famous and fatal an event took place should not perish, and circumstances not permitting us at this time to erect a monument worthy of the heroic discoverer, this present inscription is religiously and humbly consecrated, as a memorial, by the parochial priest of the island, the reverend father Fray Benito Perez, on the twenty-ninth of February, 1843." This tablet is about three feet by one and one-half feet in size, and is made of molave wood; the letters (capitals) are neatly carved in the wood--the work being done, in all probability, by some native under the priest's supervision. Attached to the tablet is a card, bearing the following inscription: "This inscription, cut in molave wood, was accidentally found by the very reverend father Fray Jorge Romanillos, the present parish priest of Opong, in the island of Mactang, where it stood beside a cross, before the erection of the monument. He sends it as a memento to the royal college of the Augustinian Fathers of the Filipinas, at Valladolid, in the year 1887."