[367] When the Portuguese, Brito, was sent to govern the Moluccas in 1511, this Raja Abuleis lived, and he names him Raja Beglif. Note, Milan edition. [368] “Chechil” or “Cachil”, a title. [369] A hundredweight. [370] Pedro Alfonso de Lorosa. [371] The northern cape at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. [372] Gilolo. [373] The Dutch observed later that this does not happen. Note, Milan edition. [374] This refers to the dress of men at arms of the period, which was not decent. [375] Perhaps these are what the Malays use for pens. [376] Chingké, Chinese for “odorous nails”. [377] “Subhan”, or giving praise. [378] “A furia.” [379] S. Barbara is the patroness of powder magazines, which on board French ships are called Sainte Barbe. [380] “Frixeto,” “_nastro_” or “_settuccia_,” “_ribbon_,” is so called now in Genoese. Note, Milan edition. [381] Marcello, a coin struck at Venice by the Doge Nicolò Marcello in 1473, of silver, weighing as much as a sequin, and worth about sixpence. Note, Milan edition. [382] “Verzi.” [383] Yucatan. [384] Or minister. [385] A kind of Ananas. Note, Milan edition. [386] The longitude is wrong, as usual. Note, Milan edition. [387] The volcanoes of Ternate and Machian, which caused such havoc in the last century by their explosions, did not then emit flames or smoke, since Pigafetta would not have omitted to mention them. [388] Laboan, an islet considered now as part of Bachian. Note, Milan edition. [389] “Xulla” of Robert’s Atlas, and “Xoula” of the Dutch. Note, Milan edition. [390] Comparing this with what the author writes a little further on, there is another proof that he took down the names of the islands, and laid down their positions, as he thought he understood the pilots who spoke a language which he little understood. He here notes ten islands, and he has drawn six without names to the North of Sulach, where other geographers also lay down a few islets; but of these ten, Tenetum, Kalairuru, Mandan, and Benaia, are again named and drawn further on; and Leytimor is a peninsula attached to Amboina. Note, Milan edition. [391] The jack fruit, called Nangka throughout the Malay seas. [392] Amboina. Pigafetta appears to refer to the large island of Ceram. Note, Milan edition. [393] The Milan MS. says “longitude”, which must be an error of the scribe. Note, Milan edition. [394] Solor. [395] “Cornioli.” [396] Strabo (_Geogr._, lib. XV). [397] The Italian method of reckoning time. [398] Luzon. [399] Bomare says that those who cut sandal wood fall ill from the miasma exhaled by the wood. Note, Milan edition. [400] A note to the Milan edition suggests that it was too early in the century for this to be the Frank disease, and that it must have been leprosy. This is more probable. [401] Ende, or Flores. [402] Majapahit. [403] Gresik.