They refitted the ship, and took in the cargo in four months and sixteen days: they sailed on the 6th of April of the year 1522, and took their course for the mainland of the Antilles by the strait through which they had come; and at first they navigated to the North, until they came out from the islands of Ternate and Tymor;[1] afterwards they navigated along the island of Betachina, ten or eleven leagues to the North-east;[2] after that they steered about twenty leagues to the North-east, and so arrived at an island, which is named Doyz,[3] and is in three and a half degrees South latitude at its South-eastern side: from this place they navigated three or four leagues eastwards, and sighted two islands, one large and the other small; the large one was named Porquenampello,[4] and passed between it and Batechina, which lay on their starboard side. They reached a cape, to which they gave the name Cape of Palms, because they sighted it on the vigil of Palms. This cape is in two and a half degrees: thence they steered to the South to make Quimar,[5] which is land belonging to the King of Tydor, and the said King had ordered that they should receive whatever there was in the country for their money, and there they took pigs and goats, and fowls and cocoa-nuts and hava:[6] they remained in this port eight or nine days. This port of Camarfya[7] is in one and a quarter degree.
- ↑ Paris MS., "Tydore." Lisbon Ac. note. The correct reading.
- ↑ Paris MS., "North-north-east." Lisbon Ac. note.
- ↑ Paris MS., "Domy." Lisbon Ac. note.
- ↑ Paris MS. "The large one is named Chāol, and the small one Pyliom." Lisbon Ac. note.
- ↑ Paris MS., "Quemarre." Lisbon Ac. note.
- ↑ Paris MS., "agoa," water, but hava or ava is a drink used in those countries. Lisbon Ac. note.
- ↑ Paris MS., "Camarro." Lisbon Ac. note.
refitting, took the opposite course and sailed for Yucatan and the isthmus of Darien, which is here called land of the Antilles; but it found itself obliged to put back to the Moluccas, and whilst about to discharge its cargo at Ternate, was cast on shore. Lisbon Ac. note.
