Note 702 — Chapter III
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Cf. Bancroft, Central America, i. 364, note. Irving unluckily followed Peter Martyr, as Bancroft shows. [Humboldt is inclined to magnify the significance of the information which Columbus in his third voyage got, as looking to a knowledge, by the Spaniards, of the south sea as early as 1503. Cf. his Relation historique du voyage aux régions équinoxiales, iii. 703, 705, 713; Cosmos, Eng. tr. (Bohn), ii. 642; Views of Nature (Bohn), p. 432.—Ed.]