Note 19 — Chapter XX

Referring to a work by the Jesuit writer Martin Martini (1614–61), who for many years was a prominent missionary in China. This was his Novus atlas Sinensis (Vienna, 1655), which formed part 10 of the great atlas published by Joannis Blaeu at Amsterdam (1656). Diaz hispanicizes Martini’s name, and rather curiously uses the Italian word atlante for “atlas” instead of the Spanish atlas.