[1] These Are Said To Have Been The Largest Ships Hitherto Built In Portugal, And To Have Carried 1200 Men; Perhaps Soldiers, Besides Their Ordinary Crews.

- Astl.

I. 57.

[2] The Turkish empire, as succeeding that of the Romans or Greeks of Constantinople, is still called _Rumi_ in the east. It will be afterwards seen, that these _Rumes_, Romans, or Turks, made some powerful efforts to drive the Portuguese from India, as greatly injurious to the Indian trade with Europe through the Red Sea and Egypt. - E.

[3] This expression is quite inexplicable, unless we may pick out very darkly that it belonged to the Calicut confederacy against the Portuguese. Yet Castaneda, or his imperfect translator Lichefild, does not inform us whether this vessel was made a prize. Lichefild seems almost always to have had a very imperfect knowledge of the language of the author, often to have mistaken his meaning or expressed it with great obscurity, and sometimes writes even a kind of jargon, by endeavouring to translate verbally without being able to catch an idea from the original. - E.

[4] According to Astley, from De Fariz only _five_ ships; and indeed in the sequel, Castaneda only mentions _two_ ships as employed, on the present occasion and three others that were drawn up on shore. - E.

[5] At the commencement of this section, Castaneda names this person Lope Mendez de Vasconcelles; in Astley, I. 58, he is called Manuel Tellez Barreto. - E.

[6] In Lichefilds translation of Castaneda, this date is made the 27th September, which is an obvious mistake.

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