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[2] The people of Quito said _papas_. The Spaniards corrupted this to
_battata_, and the Portuguese to the softer _batata_.
[3] Edwards (Life of Sir W. Raleigh. M'Millan, 1868), says Hooker is the
only contemporary writer who asserts that Raleigh sailed with this
expedition, and Edwards adds, "It is by no means certain that he did
so." But from the following entry in the State Papers of Elizabeth's
reign it appears quite certain that he did sail with it:--"The names of
all the ships, officers, and gentlemen, with the pieces of ordnance,
etc., _gone_ in the voyage with Sir Humfrey Gylberte,--Capt. Walter
Rauley, commanding the Falcon," &c--_State Papers (Domestic)_, Vol. 126,
No. 149, Nov. 18 & 19, 1578.
Mr. Edwards may not have met this entry, as he does not refer to it.
In spite of his many failures, Raleigh was, to the last, confident in
the final success of his scheme for colonizing America. After the
failure of nine expeditions, and on the ere of his fall, he said: "I
shall yet live to see it (America) an English nation." (Edwards.)
[4] Perhaps _Kartoffel_, one of the German names for potato, is a
corruption of this.
[5] Mr. Edwards says, I know not on what authority, that the land given
to Raleigh was about 12,000 acres.
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