gandalf, the portion of the draft with that note reads thus:
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IN-SL-03 <Aldarion and Erendis, Note 3 {It was six hundred years after the departure of the survivors of the Atani [Edain] over the sea to Númenor that a ship first came again out of the West to Middle-earth and passed up the Gulf of Lhûn. Its}The captain and mariners were welcomed by Gil-galad; and thus was begun the friendship and alliance of Númenor with the Eldar of Lindon. The news spread swiftly and Men in Eriador were filled with wonder. IN-SL-04 <Aldarion and Erendis, Note 3 {Elsewhere in this essay it is explained that these}These Men dwelt about Lake Evendim, in the North Downs and the Weather Hills, ...
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To me this is explanation enough: they were the Men in Eriador.
That bit of writing is included in the Tal-Elmar chapter, so it does not need to be added here.