[171-2] It should be north 11 miles. (Navarrete.)
[171-3] This is an error. It should be 15 miles. (Navarrete.) The direction _al Leste cuarta del Sueste_ is East by South.
[172-2] Cuvier notes that neither the nightingale proper nor the Spanish myrtle are found in America.
[172-3] It should be 11 miles. (Navarrete.)
[173-1] _I.e._, Spanish Isle, not "Little Spain," which is sometimes erroneously given in explanation of the Latin Hispaniola. This last is a Latinized form of Española and not a diminutive. Las Casas, I. 367, in the corresponding passage, has "Seeing the greatness and beauty of this island and its resemblance to Spain although much superior and that they had caught fish in it like the fish of Castile and for other similar reasons he decided on December 9 when in the harbor of Concepcion to name this island Spanish Island."
At a period some time later than his first voyage Columbus decided that Española and Cipango were the same and also identical with the Ophir of the Bible. _Cf._ his marginal note to Landino's Italian translation of Pliny's _Natural History_, "la isola de Feyti, vel de Ofir, vel de Cipango, a la quale habio posto nome Spagnola." _Raccolta Colombiana_, pt. I., vol. II., p. 472.
[174-1] The distance is 11 miles. (Navarrete.)
[175-2] The proper English equivalents for these names in the original are hard to find. The _corbina_ was a black fish and the name is found in both Spanish and Portuguese. _Pámpanos_ is translated "giltheads," but the name is taken over into English as "pompano." It must be remembered that in many cases the names of European species were applied to American species which resembled them but which were really distinct species of the same genus.
[177-1] Rather, "bread of _niames_." _Cf._ note, p. 139.
[178-1] Las Casas, I. 373, says that at that season the length of the day in Española is somewhat over eleven hours. The correct latitude is 20°.
[179-1] Elsewhere called Babeque. (Navarrete.)
[180-2] Rather, "There are on the edges or banks of the shore many beautiful stones and it is all suitable for walking." The Spanish text seems to be defective.
[181-1] Diego de Arana of Cordova, a near relation of Beatriz Henriquez, the mother of the Admiral's son Fernando. (Markham.) Alguazil means constable.