The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writersPigafetta, Antonio
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The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers
Pigafetta, Antonio
Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521; Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800
The said Christian seeing that he was favoured and well treated by
the inhabitants, gave them to understand by his signs that they should
carry provisions to the ships, which would be well paid for. In the
country there was nothing except rice not pounded. Then the people set
to pounding rice all the night, and when it was morning they took the
rice and the said Christian, and came to the ships, where they did them
great honour, and took in the rice and paid them, and they returned
on shore. This man being already set on shore, inhabitants of another
village, a little further on, came to the ships and told them to go to
their village, and that they would give them much provisions for their
money; and as soon as the said man whom they had sent arrived, they set
sail and went to anchor at the village of those who had come to call
them, which was named Vay Palay Cucara Canbam,[82] where Carvalho made
peace with the king of the country, and they settled the price of the
rice, and they gave them two measures of rice which weighed one hundred
and fourteen pounds[83] for three fathoms of linen stuff of Britanny;
they took there as much rice as they wanted, and goats and pigs, and
whilst they were at this place there came a Moor, who had been in the
village of Dyguaçam,[84] which belongs to the Moors of Borneo, as has
been said above, and after that he went to his country.
While they were at anchor near this village of Diguaçam,[84] there came
to them a parao in which there was a negro named Bastiam, who asked for
a flag and a passport for the governor of Diguaçam, and they gave him
all this and other things as a present. They asked the said Bastiam,
who spoke Portuguese sufficiently well, since he had been in Maluco,
where he became a Christian, if he would go with them and shew them
Borneo; he said he would very willingly, and when the departure arrived
he hid himself, and seeing that he did not come, they set sail from
this port of Diguaçam on the 21st day of July[85] to seek for Borneo.
As they set sail there came to them a parao, which was coming to the
port of Diguaçam, and they took it, and in it they took three Moors,
who said they were pilots, and that they would take them to Borneo.
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