Note 309 — Chapter XI · THE JOURNAL OF GALLEGO—PREFATORY REMARKS. (continued 2)

I have only indicated the general course in the return voyage, as a full translation would be tedious to the reader and would occupy too much of my space.

[310] The bearing was to the southward of west, as the Isle of Jesus, according to Gallego’s own observation, was in latitude 6³⁄₄°. Three days after, when they were in latitude 5¹⁄₂° S., Gallego gives their distance and bearing from the Isle of Jesus as 45 leagues W. by N.