[13] Equal to L.138: 17: 9-1/4 d. English money.--Halk.

[14] Only 6° 45' S.--E.

[15] Mr Clarke explains this as _long pepper_; but besides that this by no
means answers the descriptive name in the text, long pepper certainly
is the production of the East Indies. The article here indicated was
probably one of the many species, or varieties of the Capsicum; called
Guinea pepper, Cayenne pepper, Bird pepper, and various other names.
--E.

[16] In the original this is called the country of Prester or Presbyter
John. We have formerly, in the _First_ Part of this work, had occasion
to notice the strange idea of a Christian prince and priest, who was
supposed to have ruled among the pagan nations of eastern Tartary.
Driven from this false notion, by a more thorough knowledge of Asia,
the European nations fondly transferred the title of Prester John to
the half Christian prince or Negus of the semi-barbarous Abyssinians.
--E.



SECTION III.

_Summary of Discoveries made by the Spaniards and Portuguese, from the Era
of Columbus, in 1492, to the year 1555_.

In the year 1492, when Don Ferdinand king of Castile[1] was engaged in
the siege of Granada, he sent _one_ Christopher Columbus, a Genoese, with
three ships, for the discovery of Nova Spagna. This Columbus had first