[Footnote 1: Ruge, _Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen._
Berlin, 1881. (_Allgem. Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen_, von
Oncken.) _Die neu Welt der Landschaften_, etc. Strasburg, 1534.]
[Footnote 2: _De rebus oceanicis et novo orbi Decades tres Petri
Martyris at Angleria Mediolanensis, Coloniæ_, 1574.]
[Footnote 3: _Il viaggio di Giovan Leone e Le Navagazioni, di Aloise
da Mosto. di Pietro, di Cintra. di Anxone, di un Piloto Portuguese e
di Vasco di Gama quali si leggono nella raccolta di Giovambattista
Ramusio._ Venezia, 1837.]
[Footnote 4: For example, this from Ramusio: 'And the coast is all
low land, full of most beautiful and very tall trees, which are
evergreen, as the leaves do not wither as do those in our country,
but a new leaf appears before the other is cast off: the trees extend
right down into the marshy tract of shore, and look as if flourishing
on the sea. The coast is a most glorious sight, and in my opinion,
though I have cruised about in many parts both in the East and in the
West, I have never seen any coast which surpassed this in beauty. It
is everywhere washed by many rivers, and small streams of little
importance, as big ships will not be able to enter them.]
[Footnote 5: Ideler, _Examen critique_. Cosmos.]
[Footnote 6: _Coleccion de los viajes y decubrimientos que hicieron
por mar los espanoles desde fines del siglo XV. con varios documentos
ineditos ... co-ordinata e illustrada por Don Martin Fernandez de
Navarrete._ Madrid, 1858.]
[Footnote 7: _Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen._]
[Footnote 8: As he lay sick and despairing off Belem, an unknown
voice said to him compassionately: 'O fool! and slow to believe and
serve thy God.... He gave thee the keys of those barriers of the
ocean sea which were closed with such mighty chains, and thou wast
obeyed through many lands, and hast gained an honourable fame
throughout Christendom.' In a letter to the King and Queen of Spain
in fourth voyage.]
[Footnote 9: Humboldt.]
[Footnote 10: Biese, _op. cit._]
[Footnote 11: Zoeckler, _Geschichte der Beziehungen zwischen
Theologie und Naturwissenschaft_.]
[Footnote 12: F. Hammerich, _St Birgitta._]
[Footnote 13: Zoeckler, _op. cit._]
[Footnote 14: Comp. Wilkens' _Fray Luis de Leon_. Halle, 1866.]
[Footnote 15: Comp. Wilkens' _Fray Luis de Leon_. Halle, 1866.]
[Footnote 16: Comp. Wilkens' _Fray Luis de Leon_. Halle, 1866.]
[Footnote 17: Comp. Wilkens' _Fray Luis de Leon_. Halle, 1866.]
[Footnote 18: Humboldt.]
[Footnote 19: Comp. Carrière, _Die Poesie_.]
[Footnote 20: Zoeckler, in Herzog's _Real-Encykl._, xxi., refers to
'Le Solitaire des Indes ou la Vie de Gregoire Lopez.' Goerres, _Die
christliche Mystik_; S. Arnold, _Leben der Gläubigen_; French, _Life
of St Teresa_.]