Note 79 — Chapter VII
Reading edition
M. and D. omit “of which I heard,” and the latter reads “and I shall only tell of two of which I was a witness.”
Spaniards also, says Delgado (pp. 310, 311), recount things that are not credible, and “it is not to be wondered at that some rude and ignorant people should believe such nonsense; and if they believe some things that are told them by some scholars, it is because of the authority of those people among them.... This happens commonly in other places, besides among the Indians.”