[196-2] This estimate was far too great. The island is about one-third the size of Great Britain and one-half the size of England.
[196-4] It is now called San Honorato. (Navarrete.)
[197-1] "The fact is that _Cacique_ was the word for king, and _Nitayno_ for knight and principal lord." Las Casas, I. 394.
[197-2] The similarity between the names and the report of gold made Columbus particularly confident of the identification.
[198-1] Entrance of the Bay of Acúl. (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.)
[206-1] "He ordered then all his people to make great haste and the king ordered his vassals to help him and as an immense number joined with the Christians they managed so well and with such diligence that in a matter of ten days our stronghold was well made and as far as could be then constructed. He named it the City of Christmas (Villa de la Navidad) because he had arrived there on that day, and so to-day that harbor is called Navidad, although there is no memory that there even has been a fort or any building there, since it is overgrown with trees as large and tall as if fifty years had passed, and I have seen them." Las Casas, I. 408.
[206-2] These were not islands, but districts whose chiefs were called by the same names. _Cf._ Las Casas, I. 410.