[1] “How to Do It,” pp. 29-60.
[2] So Yule corrects Irving, who says 1250.
[3] “Early Travels in Palestine.” In Bohn’s Antiquarian Library.
[4] See “Stories of the Sea.”
[5] We follow the spelling of the old English versions, even when they
vary from each other.
[6] Mountour,--an old English rendering of the French _mountagnette_,
meaning a raised platform.
[7] This is an early mention of portable fire-arms in the East; they
were at this time novelties in Europe.
[8] The news of Saladin’s victories in Tyre, Antioch, Acre, etc.
[9] This was the river of Kalycadnus in Seleucia. The estimate given of
Frederic I. by Geoffrey is confirmed by other history.
[10] His father, Henry II. of England, had died since Richard joined
the Crusades.
[11] This is the street to Tacuba, now a village on solid ground, which
was then covered entirely by the lakes.
[12] This is always the spelling in Cortes’s letters.
[13] Called the hill of Muteczuma, on which is now a celebrated
sanctuary of the Lady de los Remedios.
[14] This is the night known as the sorrowful night, _la noche triste_.
[15] Old English spelling for ladders. Observe the word “lath” hidden
in “lathers.”
[16] The Civola of Hakluyt is the Cibola and Cevola of the other
writers. The change between _b_ and _v_ is not unfrequent.
[17] Mr. Hearne afterwards gives rather a lame explanation of the least
important part of this trick.
[18] Isla de la Gran Canaria.
[19] For this was in time of war.
[20] Of Reaumur’s thermometer. Each degree is equal to 2¼ of our
thermometers, and the zero is our 32°.
[21] “Farm of the Alligator.”
[22] Excite the fish with horses.
[23] A species of mimosa.
[24] As a favor to the merchant, I consented to share the loss with him.
[25] The Oregon Trail.
[26] Memoirs of John Quincy Adams.
[27] See Stories of the Sea, p. 107.
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