boring people was called Inuagana.[1] When they came nearer to it, they found the latitude to be eleven degrees north; the longitude they reckoned to be one hundred and fifty-eight degrees west of Cadiz. From this point they saw more and more islands, so that they found themselves in an extensive archipelago, but on arriving at Inuagana, they found it was uninhabited. Then they sailed towards another small island, where they saw two Indian canoes, for such is the Indian name of these strange boats; these canoes are scooped out of the single trunk of a tree, and hold one or at most two persons; and they are used to talk with each other by signs, like dumb people. They asked the Indians what the names of the islands were, and whence provisions could be procured, of which they were very deficient; they were given to understand that the first island they had seen was called Inuagana, that near which they then were, Acacan,[2] but that both were uninhabited; but that there was another island almost in sight, in the direction of which they pointed, called Selani,[3] and that abundance of provisions of all sorts was to be had there. Our men took in water at Acacan, and then sailed towards Selani, but a storm caught them so that they could not land there, but they were driven to another island called Massana,[4] where the king of
- ↑ Inarajan, now confined to the port on the southeast coast of Guajan, the southermost of the Ladrones.—Stevens.
- ↑ Açaçan, i. e. Sosan-jaya, the watering place at the west end of Rota Island, north of Guajan.—Stevens.
- ↑ The Caylon of Magellan, now confined to the port on the southwest side of the island of Leyte, Philippines.—Stevens.
- ↑ The Maasin of Coello, or Masin of Admiralty Chart, Sec. xiii, 943; at south end of island of Leyte, the Selani of text.—Stevens.
