Chapter XVIII: Canto V: Endnotes

[107: Sol entering Leo (Northern Tropic).]

[108: The glorious Brazil.]

[109: Senegalese of “Sanagá” (Senegal).]

[110: The Cape Verd Islands.]

[111: Alias Gorgades: Fernando Po, etc.]

[112:
12 _a_. Not in Camoens. “S’a Leone,” August, 1874.

“What sights this lovely scene shall soon unbless,
the simiad Negro swaying Africk strand;
inhuman humans, slaves in Freedom’s dress;
Ah me! what rude and wild and couthless band:
Females with ne’er a ‘No,’ males dumb to ‘Yes,’
lust, superstition, ign’orance curse the land;
fair dwelling-places where the foulest dwell;
the Blackman’s Heaven, and the White Man’s Hell.”]

[113: N. lat. 11° south of Sierra Leone.]

[114: S. Thomé.]

[115: Saint Elmo’s fire.]

[116: The moon moving faster than the sun.]

[117: Angra de Sancta Helena, S. lat. 32° 40’.]

[118: Tropic of Capricorn.]

[119: In orig., _bando_, applied to birds.]

[120: Of Pedr’ Alvares Cabral.]

[121: Bartholomeu Dias.]

[122: D. Francisco de Almeida.]

[123: D. Manoel de Souza.]

[124: Angra de Sam Braz (St. Blaise), 70 leagues E. of the Cape.]

[125: Sancta Cruz of Bart. Dias.]

[126: Off Cabo das Correntes.]

[127: Rio-dos-Reis; twelfth day O. S., Jan. 9.]

[128: The Cuama-Zambeze mouth.]

[129: _i.e._ to south-east.]

[130: The Archangel Raphael.]

[131: Scurvy, first poetically described here.]

[132: Cleopatra (says Faria y Sousa).]