Editorial note — BOOK VIII
Francis Augustus MacNutt translation
[Note 1: See Navarrete, tom, ii., 1867; Gomara, Historia General, p. 50.]
[Note 2: Also called Niño; he had sailed with Columbus on his first two voyages. Oviedo, op. cit., xix., I, also describes this expedition.]
[Note 3: Nuñez was poor and only found assistance from a merchant of Seville called Guerro, on condition that the latter's brother, Christobal, should command the one ship his loan sufficed to provide. This vessel was only fifty tons burden, and carried a crew of thirty-three persons.]