Note 5 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Rel. Terc., ap. Lorenzana, loc. cit.—Oviedo, Hist. de las Ind., MS., lib. 33, cap. 48.—Sahagun, Hist. de Nueva-España, MS., lib 12, cap. 32.—I may be excused for again quoting a few verses from a beautiful description in “Madoc,” and one as pertinent as beautiful:
“Their thousand boats, and the ten thousand oars, From whose broad bowls the waters fall and flash, And twice ten thousand feathered helms, and shields, Glittering with gold and scarlet plumery. Onward they come with song and swelling horn; ... On the other side Advance the British barks; the freshening breeze Fills the broad sail; around the rushing keel The waters sing, while proudly they sail on, Lords of the water.” Madoc, Part 2, canto 25.