¹ This explains certain exaggerations, such as the number of conversions in New Spain, the extension of some territories and other details.

² Chronologie Historico-LegaUs Seraphici Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Sancti Francisci. tomum I, (Naples, 1650).

³ “Index Regestorum Familiae Ultramontanae” in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, vol. XI, p. 531. Also see Les Franciscains et le Canada by Odoric Marie Jouve, O.F.M. (Quebec, 1915), p. 27.

⁴ There are various articles by José M. Pou y Martí, O.F.M., on this subject in the Archivo Ibero-Americano, vols. XXXV and XXXVI.

¹ There were no religious of any Order with Columbus on his first voyage.

² Trejo seems to refer to the letter of Fray Toribio de Motolinía to the Emperor, Charles V, written from Tlaxcala on January 2, 1555, but he gives a greater number than Fray Toribio, for he states: “Some of us have baptized more than 300,000 souls.”

³ He does not mention the sea expeditions of Alonso de Pinedo and Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón.

⁴ The Caribbean island, today a French possession, one of the Lesser Antilles.

⁵ An island lying to the south of Guadalupe, a British colony, one of the Windward Islands.

⁶ The Moluccas Islands, now part of the Netherlands East Indies.

⁷ There are in the entire group 26 martyrs, three of whom were familiares, or domestics, of the Jesuits, but they were so closely associated with the tertiaries that the phrase is substantially correct.

⁸ Kioto.

⁹ Fukuyama (?).

¹⁰ Sakai.

¹¹ Wakayama.

¹² Iedo (Tokio).

¹³ Nagasaki.

¹⁴ The scribe had written bienaventurado, but it was corrected by Trejo.