In the Straits of Gibraltar he met some sailors, who had been in the Atlantic Isles, and whose reports made him wish to visit these islands .-- Ed.] [Footnote O: Supposed to be the Canaries .-- Ed.] [Footnote P: "In the early part of the fifteenth century there arrived at Lisbon an old bewildered pilot of the seas, who had been driven by tempests he knew not whither, and raved about an island in the far deep upon which he had landed, and which he had found peopled, and adorned with noble cities.

The inhabitants told him that they were descendants of a band of Christians who fled from Spain when that country was conquered by the Moslems." (See Washington Irving's 'Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost', etc.; and Baring Gould's 'Curious Myths of the Middle Ages'.)--Ed.] [Footnote Q: Dominique de Gourgues, a French gentleman, who went in 1568 to Florida, to avenge the massacre of the French by the Spaniards there.
(Mr.Carter, in the edition of 1850.)--Ed.] [Footnote R: Gustavus I.of Sweden.

In the course of his war with Denmark he retreated to Dalecarlia, where he was a miner and field labourer .-- Ed.] [Footnote S: The name--both as Christian and surname--is common in Scotland, and towns (such as Wallacetown, Ayr) are named after him.
"Passed two of Wallace's caves.

There is scarcely a noted glen in Scotland that has not a cave for Wallace, or some other hero." Dorothy Wordsworth's 'Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland in 1803' (Sunday, August 21) .-- Ed.] [Footnote T: Compare 'L'Allegro', l.

137 .-- Ed.] [Footnote U: Compare 'Paradise Lost', iii.