J4 8 notes and illustrations.

NOTE n. p. 7.

One may form an idea both of the hardfhips whichthey endured, and of the ficklinefs of the regions whichthey vilited , from the extraordinary mortality thatprevailed among them. Pizarro carried out 112 men ,Almagro 70. In lefs than nine months 15o of thefe died.Few fell by the fword; moil of them were cut off by'difeafes. Xerez, p. 180.

NOTE III. p. 10.

This ifland, fays Herrera, is rendered fo uncomfort-able by the unwholefomenefs of its climate, its impenetrablewoods, its rugged mountains, and the multitude of infectsand reptiles, that it is feldom any fofeer epithet thanthat of infernal is employed in deferibing it. The funis alnroft never feen there , and throughout the year ithardly ever ceafes to rain. Dec. }. lib. x. c. 5. Dampiertouched at this ifland in the year 168$; and his accountof the climate is not more favorable. Vol. i. p. 172.He, during his cruife on the coaft , vifited moll ofthe places where Pizarro landed, and his defeription ofthem throws light on the narrations of the early Spanifbhiftorians.

N 0 T E IV. p. 27.

13 Y this time horfes had multiplied greatly in the Spanifhfettlements en the continent. When Cortes began hisexpedition in the year 1 ? 18 , though his armament wasmore confiderable than that of Pizarro, and compofed ofperfons fuperior in rank tv thofe who invaded Peru , he'could procure no more than fixteen lrorfes.