one end of the yard is attached a net which may be raised from and
lowered into the water. This contrivance is called by the natives
_timba_. See full description of the salambao, and of other native
modes of fishing, in Zúñiga's _Estadismo_ (Retana's ed.), i, pp. 199,
200; and illustration of this apparatus in F. Jagor's _Travels in
the Philippines_ (London, 1875), p. 47.

[8] "The black people or Caffares of the land of Mozambique, and
all the coast of Ethiopia and within the land to the Cape de Bona
Speranza." ... "The Portingales do make a living by buying and selling
of them" (Linschoten's _Voyage_ (Hakluyt Soc. trans., London, 1885),
vol. i, pp. 269, 277).

[9] _Blanca_: half a maravedi, equivalent to nearly one mill in
U.S. money.

[10] A law dated 1556 provides that jettisons are to be reckoned as
risks in common, and to be distributed among ship, freight-money,
and cargo. See _Recop. leyes Indias_ (ed. 1841), lib. ix, tit. xxxix,
ley x.

[11] Apparently referring to Fray Marcelo de Rivadeneira, one of the
Franciscans who went to Japan with Pedro Baptista. Rivadeneira wrote
a book, _Historia de las islas del Archipiélago_, etc. (Barcelona,
M.DC.I), which describes the countries of Eastern Asia, and relates
the history of Franciscan missions therein.

[12] In the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla, is a document which
contains the following statement: "I, Captain Joan de Bustamante,
accountant and official judge of the royal exchequer of the Filipinas