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Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, whose manuscript chronicle of the Chichi- 

 meques, which I saw, in 1803, in the palace of the Viceroy of Mexico, and 

 which Mr. Prescott has made such happy use of in his work (Conquest of 

 Mexico, Vol. i. p. 61, 173, and 206 ; Vol. iii. p. 112), was a descendant of 

 the poet king Nezahualcoyotl. The Aztec name of the historian, Fernando de 

 Alva, signifies Vanilla faced. M. Ternaux-Compans, in 1840, printed a 

 French translation of this manuscript in Paris. The notice of the long ele- 

 phant's hair which Cadamosto collected, is to be found in Ramusio, Vol. i. p. 

 109, and in Gryneeus, cap. 43, p. 33. 



t 429 ) p. 277. Clavigero, Storia antica del Messico (Cesena, 1780) T. ii. p. 

 153. The accordant testimonies of Hernan Cortes, in his reports to the 

 Emperor Charles V., of Bernal Diaz, Gomara, Oviedo, and Hernandez, leave 

 no doubt that at the time of the conquest of Montezuma's empire, there were 

 in no part of Europe menageries and botanic gardens (collections of living 

 animals and plants) which could be compared to those of Huaxtepee, Chapol- 

 tapec, Iztapalapan, and Tezcuco (Prescott, Vol. i. p. 178; Vol. ii. p. 66 and 

 117; Vol. iii. p. 42). Respecting the early attention stated in the text to 

 have been paid to the fossil bones in the American " fields of giants," see 

 Garcilaso, lib. ix. cap. 9 ; Acosta, lib. iv. cap. 30 ; and Hernandez (ed. of 

 1556), T. i. cap. 32, p. 105. 



C 130 ) p. 279. Observations de Christophe Colomb sur le Passage de la 

 Polaire par le Meridien, in my Relation hist. T. i. p. 506, and in the Examen 

 crit. T. iii. p. 1720, 44 51, and 56 61. (Compare also Navarrete, in 

 Columbus's Journal of 16 to 30 Sept. 1492, p. 9, 15, and 254.) 



C 131 ) p. 282. Respecting the singular differences of the Bula de concesion 

 a los Reyes Catholicos de las Indias descubiertas y que se descrubieren of 3 

 May, 1493, and the Bula de Alexandro VI. sobre la particion del oceano of 

 May 4, 1493 (elucidated in the Bula de estension of the 25th of September, 

 1493), see Examen crit. T. iii. p. 52 54. Very different from this line 

 of demarcation is that settled in the Capitulaciou de la Particion del Mar 

 Oceano entre los Reyes Catholicos y Don Juan, Rey de Portugal, of the 7th 

 June, 1494, 370 leguas (17$ to an equatorial degree) west of the Cape Verd 

 Islands. (Compare Navarrete, Coleccion de los Viages y Descubr. de los Esp. 

 T. ii. p. 2835, 116143, and 404; T. iv. p. 55 and 252). This last 

 named line, which led to the sale of the Moluccas (de el Maluco) to Portugal, 

 1529, for the sum of 35000,0 gold ducats, had no connection with magnetical 

 or meteorological fancies. The papal lines of demarcation, however, deserve 

 more careful consideration in the present work, because, as I have mentioned 



