Note 7 — Bañuelos y Carrillo’s Relation
Reading edition
A marginal note reads as follows: “Ricca douro is an island which was discovered by a vessel from Macao. They landed there in order to repair their galley fireplace, and a week later they perceived that that earth had been converted into plates of gold. I suffered a violent tempest in the latitude of that island, as the maps show it; and there are few vessels that sail in that latitude, without having trouble.”
See also notes in VOL. XIV of this series, p. 183; and VOL. XVI, p. 204.