hostile demonstrations against the people from Tortuga.--E.

[6] This term evidently expresses a person unused to the sea, as
contradistinguished from an experienced seaman.--E.

[7] Cazabi seems to have been what is now called casada in the British
West Indies, or prepared manioc root; and axi in some other parts of
this voyage is mentioned as the spice of the West Indies; probably
either pimento or capsicum, and used as a condiment to relish the
insipidity of the casada.--E.

[8] The meaning of this term is nowhere explained in this voyage: but in
the account of the discovery of America by Herrera, it is said to
signify pale gold. From its application in the text, it is probably
the Indian name of gold, the perpetual object of inquiry by the
Spaniards.--E.

[9] Such absurd fables have in all ages been the consequence of credulous
intercourse of ill-informed men, ignorant of the languages of newly
discovered nations. The Amazons of antiquity are here supposed to be
rediscovered; but were afterwards transferred to the interior marshy
plains of South America.--E.

[10] The author probably alludes here to the various-shaped pods of
different species or varieties of capsicum.--E.




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