[231-3] An error of the transcriber for miles. Each glass being half-an-hour, going six miles an hour, they would have made 33 miles or 8-1/4 leagues in five hours and a half. (Navarrete.)

[233-2] The English equivalent is dory, or gilthead.

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[235-2] Later a rich citizen of the city of Santo Domingo, Española, where he was known as Roldan the pilot. Las Casas, I. 443.

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[236-1] The name is also written Peralonso Niño. He made one of the first voyages to the mainland of South America after the third voyage of Columbus. See Irving, _Companions of Columbus_. Bourne, _Spain in America_, p. 69.

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[237-1] A gap in the original manuscript.

[238-1] Martin Alonso Pinzon succeeded in bringing the caravel _Pinta_ into port at Bayona in Galicia. He went thence to Palos, arriving in the evening of the same day as the _Niña_ with the Admiral. Pinzon died very soon afterwards. Oviedo [I. 27] says: "He went to Palos to his own house and died after a few days since he went there very ill." (Markham.)

[239-1] Virgin of Guadalupe was the patroness of Estremadura. As many of the early colonists went from Estremadura there came to be a good number of her shrines in Mexico. _Cf._ R. Ford, _Handbook for Spain_, index under "Guadalupe."

[239-2] A full account of the shrine at Loreto may be found in Addis and Arnold, _Catholic Dictionary_, under "Loreto."

[239-3] "This is the house where the sailors of the country particularly have their devotions." Las Casas, I. 446. Moguer was a village near Palos.

[240-1] See page 108, note 1. and entry for October 10.

[241-1] As Beatriz Enriquez, the mother of Ferdinand, was still living, this passage has occasioned much perplexity. A glance at the corresponding passage, quoted in direct discourse from this entry in the Journal, in the _Historie_ of Ferdinand, shows that the words "orphans without father or mother" were not in the original Journal, if we can trust this transcript. On the other hand, Las Casas, in his _Historia_, I. 447, where he used the original Journal and not the abridgment that has come down to us, has the words "_huerfanos de padre y madre en tierra estraña_." It may be that Ferdinand noted the error of the original Journal and quietly corrected it.