Chapter XXIX
Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham translation
Describes the festival of Corpus Christi, and the procession they made.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · “Araucana,” por Don Alonso de Ercilla. Canto XXVII, octava 52.Note 2 · The “friend” is, of course, Belmonte Bermudez, the Secretary of Quiros.Note 3 · Captain Cook relates that his people caught two reddish fish with hook and line in Port Sandwich, Malicolo Island (one of the New Hebrides),Note 4 · All the carpentering work was finished by the 20th of May. On that day the Captain gave orders to the Master of the Camp to go on shore withNote 5 · Version of the friend of Quiros.2Note 6 · The Captain sent some of the people on board again, and marched inland with the rest to the sound of drums. He saw what he had sown already