* Sweet potatoes.

* Tobacco.

* This was actually the Arawak word for their huts, which Columbus misunderstood as the name of an island.

* A kind of mastic, already mentioned.

* A light, oared vessel which was sometimes equipped with mast and sails.

* Tortoise.

* A portuguese possession.

* Bartholomew Díaz, discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.

* The treaty ending the War of Succession.

† A Portuguese goldfield on the African coast.