* Chanca was one of Ferdinand and Isabela’s physicians whom they sent as doctor to the expedition and whose salary they paid.

† Columbus had a fleet of seventeen ships including caravels and lighter vessels for inshore work, and twelve to fifteen thousand men.

* Dominica, so called because it was discovered on that Sunday.

† Maria Galante, named after Columbus’s ship, Santa Maria la Galante.

‡ This might have been a mistake; probably the peaks on Dominica were counted as separate islands.

* This was probably the manchineal (manzanillo). The Caribs used the fruit of this tree to make poison for their arrows.

* Guadalupe.

* These are probably Guadelupe, Maria Galante and Santa Cruz, but the identification is not certain.

* Montserrat.

† Santa Maria la Redonda, the round island.

* Santa Maria de la Antigua.

† San Martin.

* If this refers to Dominica it is not true. There is no gold but plenty of wood. There is perhaps a mistake in the text.

† The island of Santa Cruz.

‡ Puerto Rico.

* The remaining Leeward Islands.

* Haiti and Bohio were both native names for the whole island and Jamana was a district lying on the north coast.

† Aguti, a kind of edible rat.

‡ According to Oviedo an alligator.

* Guacanagari.

* These would have been thrown alight to set fire to the straw roofs; possibly they are the same as the clothing mentioned later.

* Melchior Maldonado, who had been sent on the expedition by the sovereigns Ferdinand and Isabela.

* The town was called Isabela, after the Queen. It was abandoned after two years in favour of Santo Domingo, and fell into ruins.

† This word, Arawak in origin, was applied to chieftains throughout Spanish America, though the word was proper to the West Indies alone.

* This is the Ceiba or silk cotton tree.

† ‘Hog plum.’

* Yucca.

† Red pepper