One satus
Two dua
Three tiga
Four ampat
Five lima
Six anam
Seven tugu
Eight duolappan
Nine sambilan
Ten sapolo
Twenty duapolo
Thirty tigapolo
Forty ampatpolo
Fifty limapolo
Sixty anampolo
Seventy tuguppolo
Eighty dualapanpolo
Ninety sambilampolo
One hundred saratus
Two hundred duaratus
Three hundred tigaratus
Four hundred anamparatus
Five hundred limaratus
Six hundred anambratus
Seven hundred tugurattus
Eight hundred dualapanratus
Nine hundred sambilanratus
One thousand salibu
Two thousand dualibu
Three thousand tigalibu
Four thousand ampatlibu
Five thousand limalibu
Six thousand anamlibu
Seven thousand tugulibu
Eight thousand dualapanlibu
Nine thousand sambilanlibu
Ten thousand salacza
Twenty thousand dualacza
Thirty thousand tigalacza
Forty thousand ampatlacza
Fifty thousand limalacza
Sixty thousand anamlacza
Seventy thousand tugulacza
Eighty thousand dualapanlacza
Ninety thousand sambilanlacza
One hundred thousand sacati
Two hundred thousand duacati
Three hundred thousand tigacati
Four hundred thousand ampatcati
Five hundred thousand limacati
Six hundred thousand anamcati
Seven hundred thousand tugacati
Eight hundred thousand dualapancati
Nine hundred thousand sambilancati
One million [literally: ten
times one hundred
thousand] sainta
All the hundreds, the thousands, the tens of thousands, the hundreds of
thousands, and the millions are joined with the numbers, satus, dua,
etc. [548]
Proceeding on our way we passed amid those islands [those of] Caioan,
Laigoma, Sico, Giogi, and Caphi. [549] In the said island of Caphi is
found a race as small as dwarfs, who are amusing people, and are
pigmies. [550] They have been subjected by force to our king of Tadore.
[We also passed the islands of] Laboan, Toliman, Titameti, Bachian, of
which we have already spoken, Lalalata, Tabobi, Maga, and Batutiga.
[551] Passing outside the latter on its western side, we laid our
course west southwest, and discovered some islets toward the south. And
inasmuch as the Malucho pilots told us to go thither, for we were
pursuing our course among many islands and shoals, we turned toward the
southeast, and encountered an island which lies in a latitude of two
degrees toward the Antarctic Pole, and fifty-five leguas from Maluco.
It is called Sulach, [552] and its inhabitants are heathens. They have
no king, and eat human flesh. They go naked, both men and women, only
wearing a bit of bark two fingers wide before their privies. There are
many islands thereabout where the inhabitants eat human flesh. The
names of some of them are as follows: Silan, Noselao, Biga, Atulabaou,
Leitimor, Tenetun, Gondia, Pailarurun, Manadan, and Benaia. [553] Then
we coasted along two islands called Lamatola [554] and Tenetun, lying
about x leguas from Sulach. In that same course we encountered a very
large island where one finds rice, swine, goats, fowls, cocoanuts,
sugarcane, sago, a food made from one of their varieties of figs [i.e.,
bananas] called chanali,554 and chiacare, which are called nangha.
Nangcas are a fruit resembling the cucumber [augurie]. They are knotty
on the outside, and inside they have a certain small red fruit like the
apricot. It contains no stone, but has instead a marrowy substance
resembling a bean but larger. That marrowy substance has a delicate
taste like chestnuts. [There is] a fruit like the pineapple. It is
yellow outside, and white inside, and when cut it is like a pear, but
more tender and much better. Its name is connilicai. The inhabitants of
that island go naked as do those of Solach. They are heathens and have
no king. That island lies in a latitude of three and one-half degrees
toward the Antarctic Pole, and is seventy-five [555] [degrees: crossed
out in original MS.] leguas from Malucho. Its name is Buru. Ten leguas
east of the above island is a large island which is bounded by
Jiaalolo. It is inhabited by Moros and heathens. The Moros live near
the sea, and the heathens in the interior. The latter eat human flesh.
The products mentioned above are produced in that island. It is called
Ambon. [556] Between Buru and Ambon are found three islands surrounded
by reefs, called Vudia, [557] Cailaruri, and Benaia; and near Buru, and
about four leguas to the south, is a small island, called Ambalao.
[558]
About thirty-five leguas to the south by west of the above island of
Buru, are found Bandan. Bandan consists of twelve islands. Mace and
nutmeg grow in six of them. Their names are as follows: Zoroboa, the
largest of them all, and the others, Chelicel, Samianapi, Pulac,
Pulurun, and Rosoghin. The other six are as follows: Unuueru,
Pulanbaracon, Lailaca, Manucan, Man, and Meut. [559] Nutmeg is not
found in them, but only sago, rice, cocoanuts, figs [i.e., bananas],
and other fruits. Those islands are located near together, and their
inhabitants are Moros, who have no king. Bandan lies in a latitude of
six degrees toward the Antarctic Pole, and in a longitude of one
hundred and sixty-three and one-half degrees from the line of
demarcation. As it was a trifle outside of our course we did not go
there. [560]
Leaving the above mentioned island of Baru, and taking the course
toward the southwest by west, we reached, [after sailing through] about
eight degrees of longitude, three islands, quite near together, called
Zolot, Nocemamor, and Galiau. [561] While sailing amid them, we were
struck by a fierce storm, which caused us to make a pilgrimage to our
Lady of Guidance. Running before the storm we landed at a lofty island,
but before reaching it we were greatly worn out by the violent gusts of
wind that came from the mountains of that island, and the great
currents of water. The inhabitants of that island are savage and
bestial, and eat human flesh. They have no king, and go naked, wearing
only that bark as do the others, except that when they go to fight they
wear certain pieces of buffalo hide before, behind, and at the sides,
which are ornamented with small shells, [562] boars’ tusks, and tails
of goat skins fastened before and behind. They wear their hair done up
high and held by certain long reed pins which they pass from one side
to the other, which keep the hair high. They wear their beards wrapped
in leaves and thrust into small bamboo tubes—a ridiculous sight. They
are the ugliest people who live in those Indias. Their bows and arrows
are of bamboo. They have a kind of a sack made from the leaves of a
tree in which their women carry their food and drink. When those people
caught sight of us, they came to meet us with bows, but after we had
given them some presents, we immediately became their friends. [563] We
remained there a fortnight in order to calk the sides [564] of the
ship. In that island are found fowls, goats, cocoanuts, wax (of which
they gave us fifteen libras for one libra of old iron), and pepper,
both long and round. [565] The long pepper resembles the first blossoms
of the hazelnut in winter. [566] Its plant resembles ivy, and it clings
to trees as does that plant; but its leaves resemble those of the
mulberry. It is called luli. [567] The round pepper grows like the
former, but in ears like Indian corn, and is shelled off; and it is
called lada. The fields in those regions are full of this [last variety
of] pepper, planted to resemble arbors. [568] We captured a man in that
place so that he might take us to some island where we could lay in
provisions. That island lies in a latitude of eight and one-half
degrees toward the Antarctic Pole, and a longitude of one hundred and
sixty-nine and two-thirds degrees from the line of demarcation; and is
called Malua. [569]
Our old pilot from Maluco told us that there was an island nearby
called Arucheto, [570] the men and women of which are not taller than
one cubit, but who have ears as long as themselves. With one of them
they make their bed and with the other they cover themselves. They go
shaven close and quite naked, run swiftly, and have shrill voices. They
live in caves underground, and subsist on fish and a substance which
grows between the wood and the bark [of a tree], which is white and
round like preserved coriander, which is called ambulon. However, we
did not go there because of the strong currents in the water, and the
numerous shoals.
On Saturday, January 25, MCCCCCXXII, [571] we left the island of Malua.
On Sunday, the twenty-sixth, [572] we reached a large island which lies
five leguas to the south southwest of Malua. I went ashore alone to
speak to the chief of a city called Amaban to ask him to furnish us
with food. He told me that he would give me buffaloes, [573] swine, and
goats, but we could not come to terms because he asked many things for
one buffalo. Inasmuch as we had but few things, and hunger was
constraining us, we retained in the ship a chief and his son from
another village called Balibo. [574] He for fear lest we kill him,
immediately gave us six buffaloes, five goats, and two swine; and to
complete the number of ten swine and ten goats [which we had demanded]
they gave us one [additional] buffalo. For thus had we placed the
condition [of their ransom]. Then we sent them ashore very well pleased
with linen, Indian cloth of silk and cotton, hatchets, Indian knives,
scissors, mirrors, and knives. [575] That chief to whom I went to talk
had only women to serve him. All the women go naked as do the other
women [of the other islands]. In their ears they wear small earrings of
gold, with silk tassels pendant from them. On their arms they wear many
gold and brass armlets as far as the elbow. The men go as the women,
except that they fasten certain gold articles, round like a trencher,
about their necks, and wear bamboo combs adorned with gold rings [576]
in their hair. Some of them wear the necks of dried gourds in their
ears in place of gold rings.
White sandal wood is found in that island and nowhere else. [577]
[There is also] ginger, buffaloes, swine, goats, fowls, rice, figs
[i.e., bananas], sugarcane, oranges, lemons, wax, almonds,
kidney-beans, [578] and other things, as well as parrots of various
colors. On the other side of the island are four brothers, who are the
kings of that island. Where we were, there were cities and some of
their chiefs. The names of the four settlements of the kings are as
follows: Oibich, Lichsana, Suai, and Cabanaza. Oibich is the largest.
There is a quantity of gold found in a mountain in Cabanaza, according
to the report given us, and its inhabitants make all their purchases
with little bits of gold. All the sandal wood and wax that is traded by
the inhabitants of Java and Malaca is traded for in that region. We
found a junk from Lozon there, which had come thither to trade in
sandal wood. Those people are heathens. When they go to cut the sandal
wood, the devil (according to what we were told), appears to them in
various forms, and tells them that if they need anything they should
ask him for it. They become ill for some days as a result of that
apparition. The sandal wood is cut at a certain time of the moon, for
otherwise it would not be good. The merchandise valued in exchange for
sandal wood there is red cloth, linen, hatchets, [579] iron, and nails.
That island is inhabited in all parts, and extends for a long distance
east and west, but is not very broad north and south. It lies in a
latitude of ten degrees toward the Antarctic Pole, and in a longitude
of one hundred and seventy-four and one-half [580] degrees from the
line of demarcation, and is called Timor. [581] The disease of St. Jop
was to be found in all of the islands which we encountered in that
archipelago, but more in that place than in others. It is called foi
franchi [582] that is to say “Portuguese disease.” [583]
A day’s journey thence toward the west northwest, we were told that
we would find an island where quantities of cinnamon grow, by name
Ende. [584] Its inhabitants are heathens, and have no king. [We were
told] also that there are many islands in the same [isl: crossed out in
original MS.] course, one following the other, as far as Java Major,
and the cape of Malaca. The names of those islands are as follows:
Ende, Tanabutun, Creuo, Chile, Bimacore, Aranaran, Mani, Zumbaua,
Lomboch, Chorum, [585] and Java Major. [586] Those inhabitants do not
call it Java but Jaoa. The largest cities are located in Java, and are
as follows: Magepaher (when its king was alive, he was the most
powerful in all those islands, and his name was Raia Patiunus); Sunda,
where considerable, pepper grows; Daha; Dama; Gagiamada; Minutaranghan;
Cipara; Sidaiu; Tuban; Cressi; Cirubaia; [587] and Balli. [588] [We
were told] also that Java Minor is the island of Madura, and is located
near to Java Major, [being only] one-half legua away. [589] We were
told also that when one of the chief men of Java Major dies, his body
is burned. His principal wife adorns herself with garlands of flowers
and has herself carried on a chair through the entire village by three
or four men. Smiling and consoling her relatives who are weeping, she
says: “Do not weep, for I am going to sup with my dear husband this
evening, [590] and to sleep with him this night.” Then she is carried
to the fire, where her husband is being burned. Turning toward her
relatives, and again consoling them, she throws herself into the fire,
where her husband is being burned. Did she not do that, she would not
be considered an honorable woman or a true wife to her dead husband.
[591] When the young men of Java are in love with any gentlewoman, they
fasten certain little bells between their penis and the foreskin. They
take a position under their sweetheart’s window, and making a
pretense of urinating, and shaking their penis, they make the little
bells ring, and continue to ring them until their sweetheart hears the
sound. The sweetheart descends immediately, and they take their
pleasure; always with those little bells, for their women take great
pleasure in hearing those bells ring from the inside. [592] Those bells
are all covered, and the more they are covered the louder [593] they
sound. Our oldest pilot told us that in an island called Acoloro, [594]
which lies below Java Major, there are found no persons but women, and
that they become pregnant from the wind. When they bring forth, if the
offspring is a male, they kill it, but if it is a female they rear it.
If men go to that island of theirs, they kill them if they are able to
do so.
They also told us that a very huge tree is found below Java Major
toward the north, in the gulf of Chiina (which the ancients call Signo
Magno), in which live birds called garuda. Those birds are so large
that they carry a buffalo or an elephant to the place (called
Puzathaer), of that tree, which is called cam panganghi, and its fruit
bua panganghi. [595] The latter is larger than a cucumber. The Moros of
Burne whom we had in our ship told us that they had seen them, for
their king had had two of them sent to him from the kingdom of Siam. No
junk or other boat can approach to within three or four leguas of the
place of the tree, because of the great whirlpools in the water round
about it. The first time that anything was learned of that tree was
[from] a junk which was driven by the winds into the whirlpool. The
junk having been beaten to pieces, all the crew were drowned except a
little boy, who, having been tied to a plank, was miraculously driven
near that tree. He climbed up into the tree without being discovered,
where he hid under the wing of one of those birds. Next day the bird
having gone ashore and having seized a buffalo, the boy came out from
under the wing as best he could. The story was learned from him, and
then the people nearby knew that the fruit which they found in the sea
came from that tree.
The cape of Malacha [596] lies in one and one-half degrees toward the
Antarctic Pole. Along the coast east of that cape are many villages and
cities. The names of some of them are as follows: Cinghapola, which is
located on the cape; Pahan; Calantan; Patani; Bradlun; Benan; Lagon;
Cheregigharan; Tumbon; Phran; Cui; Brabri; Bangha; India, which is the
city where the king of Siam, by name Siri Zacabedera, lives; Jandibum;
Lanu; and Longhonpifa. [597] Those cities are built like ours, and are
subject to the king of Siam. On the shores of the rivers of that
kingdom of Siam, live, as we are told, large birds which will not eat
of any dead animal that may have been carried there, unless another
bird comes first to eat its heart, after which they eat it. [598] Next
to Siam is found Camogia, [599] whose king is called Saret Zacabedera;
then Chiempa, whose king is Raia Brahaun Maitri. [600] Rhubarb which is
found in the following manner grows there. Twenty or twenty-five men
assemble and go together into the jungles. Upon the approach of night,
they climb trees, both to see whether they can catch the scent of the
rhubarb, and also for fear of the lions, elephants, and other wild
beasts. The wind bears to them the odor of the rhubarb from the
direction in which it is to be found. When morning dawns they go in
that direction whence the wind has come, and seek the rhubarb until
they find it. The rhubarb is a large rotten tree; and unless it has
become rotten, it gives off no odor. The best part of that tree is the
root, although the wood is also rhubarb which is called calama. [601]
Next is found Cochi, [602] whose king is called Raia Seribumni Pala.
After that country is found Great Chiina, whose king is the greatest in
all the world, and is called Santhoa Raia. [603] He has seventy crowned
kings subject to himself, and some of the latter have ten or fifteen
kings subject to them. His port is called Guantan [i.e., Canton]. Among
the multitude of other cities, there are two principal ones called
Nanchin [i.e., Nanking] and Comlaha [604] where the above king lives.
He keeps his four principal men near his palace—one toward the west,
one toward the east, one toward the south, and one toward the north.
Each one of those four men gives audience only to those who come from
his own quarter. All the kings and seigniors of greater and upper [605]
India obey that king; and in token that they are his true vassals, each
one has an animal which is stronger than the lion, and called chinga,
[606] carved in marble in the middle of his square. That chinga is the
seal of the said king of Chiina, and all those who go to Chiina must
have that animal carved in wax [or] on an elephant’s tooth, for
otherwise they would not be allowed to enter his harbor. When any
seignior is disobedient to that king, he is ordered to be flayed, and
his skin dried in the sun and salted. Then the skin is stuffed with
straw or other substance, and placed head downward in a prominent place
in the square, with the hands clasped above the head, [607] so that he
may be seen then to be performing zonghu, that is, obeisance. That king
never allows himself to be seen by anyone. When he wishes to see his
people, he rides about the palace on a skilfully made peacock, a most
elegant contrivance, accompanied by six of his most principal women
clad like himself; after which he enters a serpent called nagha, [608]
which is as rich a thing as can be seen, and which is kept in the
greatest court of the palace. The king and the women enter it so that
he may not be recognized among his women. He looks at his people
through a large glass which is in the breast of the serpent. He and the
women can be seen, but one cannot tell which is the king. The latter is
married to his sisters, so that the blood royal may not be mixed with
others. Near his palace are seven encircling walls, and in each of
those circular places are stationed ten thousand men for the guard of
the palace [who remain there] until a bell rings, when ten thousand
other men come for each circular space. They are changed in this manner
each day and each night. Each circle of the wall has a gate. At the
first stands a man with a large hook in his hand, called satu horan
with satu bagan; in the second, a dog, called satu hain; in the third,
a man with an iron mace, called satu horan with pocum becin; in the
fourth, a man with a bow in his hand called satu horan with anat panan;
in the fifth, a man with a spear, called satu horan with tumach; in the
sixth, a lion, called satu horiman; in the seventh, two white
elephants, called two gagia pute. [609] That palace has seventy-nine
halls which contain only women who serve the king. Torches are always
kept lighted in the palace, [610] and it takes a day to go through it.
In the upper part of it are four halls, where the principal men go
sometimes to speak to the king. One is ornamented with copper [metalo],
both below and above; one all with silver; one all with gold; and the
fourth with pearls and precious gems. When the king’s vassals take
him gold or any other precious things as tribute, they are placed in
those halls, and they say: “Let this be for the honor and glory of
our Santhoa Raia. [611] All the above and many other things were told
us by a Moro who had seen them. The inhabitants of Chiina are light
complexioned and wear clothes. They eat at tables as we do, and have
the cross, but it is not known for what purpose. [612] Musk is produced
in that country of Chiina. Its animal is a cat [613] like the civet
cat. It eats nothing except a sweet wood as thick as the finger, called
chamaru. [614] When the Chinese wish to make the musk, they attach a
leech to the cat, which they leave fastened there, until it is well
distended with blood. Then they squeeze the leech out into a dish and
put the blood in the sun for four or five days. After that they
sprinkle it with urine, [615] and as often as they do that they place
it in the sun. Thus it becomes perfect musk. Whoever owns one of those
animals has to pay a certain sum to the king. Those grains which seem
to be grains of musk are of kid’s flesh crushed in the real musk and
not the blood. [616] Although the blood can be made into grains, it
evaporates. The musk and the cat are called castor and the leech
lintha. [617] Many peoples are to be found as one follows the coast of
that country of Chiina, who are as follows. The Chienchii [618] inhabit
islands where pearls and cinnamon grow. The Lechii live on the
mainland; above their port stretches a mountain, so that all the junks
and ships which desire to enter that port must unstep their masts. The
king on the mainland [is called] Mom. [619] He has twenty kings under
him and is subordinate to the king of Chiina. His city is called
Baranaci. The great Oriental catayo [620] is located there. Han [621]
[is] a cold, lofty island where copper [metalo], silver, pearls, and
silk are produced, whose king is called Raia Zotru; Mli Ianla, whose
king is called Raia Chetisqnuga; [622] Gnio, and its king, Raia
Sudacali. All three of the above places are cold and are located on the
mainland. Triaganba [623] and Trianga [are] two islands where pearls,
copper [metalo], silver, and silk are produced, and whose king is Raia
Rrom. Bassi Bassa [is] on the mainland; and then [follow] two islands,
Sumbdit and Pradit, [624] which are exceedingly rich in gold, whose
inhabitants wear a large gold ring around the legs at the ankle. On the
mainland near that point live a race in some mountains who kill their
fathers and mothers as age comes on, so that they may have no further
trouble. All the peoples of those districts are heathens.
On Tuesday night as it drew near Wednesday, February eleven, 1522, we
left the island of Timor and took to the great open sea called Laut
Chidol. [625] Laying our course toward the west southwest, we left the
island of Zamatra, formerly called Traprobana, [626] to the north on
our right hand, for fear of the king of Portoghala; [627] [as well as]
Pegu, Bengala, Uriza, Chelin where the Malabars live, who are subject
to the king of Narsingha, Calicut, subject to the same king, Cambaia,
where the Guzerati live, Cananor, Ghoa, Armus, and all the rest of the
coast of India Major. [628] Six different classes of people inhabit
India Major: Nairi, Panichali, Yranai, Pangelini, Macuai, and Poleai.
[629] The Nairi are the chiefs; and the Panichali are the townspeople:
those two classes of men have converse together. The Iranai gather the
palm wine and figs. The Pangelini are the sailors. The Macuai are the
fishermen. The Poleai are the farmers and harvest the rice. These last
always live in the country, although they enter the city at times.
[630] When anything is given them it is laid on the ground, and then
they take it. When they go through the streets they call out Po! po!
po! that is “Beware of me!” [631] It happened, as we were told,
that a Nair once had the misfortune to be touched by a Polea, for which
the Nair immediately had the latter killed so that he might erase that
disgrace. In order that we might double the cape of Bonna Speranza
[i.e., “Good Hope”], we descended to forty-two degrees on the side
of the Antarctic Pole. We were nine weeks [632] near that cape with our
sails hauled down because we had the west and northwest winds on our
bow quarter and because of a most furious storm. [633] That cape lies
in a latitude of thirty-four and one-half degrees, and is one thousand
six hundred leguas [634] from the cape of Malaca. It is the largest and
most dangerous cape in the world. Some of our men, both sick and well,
wished to go to a Portuguese settlement called Mozanbich, [635] because
the ship was leaking badly, because of the severe cold, and especially
because we had no other food than rice and water; for as we had no
salt, our provisions of meat had putrefied. [636] Some of the others
however, more desirous of their honor than of their own life,
determined to go to Spagnia living or dead. Finally by God’s help, we
doubled that cape on May six at a distance of five leguas. Had we not
approached so closely, we could never have doubled it. [637] Then we
sailed northwest for two months continually without taking on any fresh
food or water [refrigerio]. Twenty-one men died during that short time.
When we cast them into the sea, the Christians went to the bottom face
upward, while the Indians always went down face downward. [638] Had not
God given us good weather we would all have perished of hunger.
Finally, constrained by our great extremity, we went to the islands of
Capo Verde. Wednesday, July nine, we reached one of those islands
called Sancto Jacobo, [639] and immediately sent the boat ashore for
food, with the story for the Portuguese that we had lost our foremast
under the equinoctial line (although we had lost it upon the cape of
Bonna Speranza), and when we were restepping it, [640] our
captain-general had gone to Spagnia with the other two ships. With
those good words [641] and with our merchandise, we got two boatloads
of rice. We charged our men when they went ashore in the boat to ask
what day it was, and they told us that it was Thursday with the
Portuguese. We were greatly surprised for it was Wednesday with us, and
we could not see how we had made a mistake; for as I had always kept
well, I had set down every day without any interruption. However, as
was told us later, it was no error, but as the voyage had been made
continually toward the west and we had returned to the same place as
does the sun, we had made that gain of twenty-four hours, as is clearly
seen. The boat having returned to the shore again for rice, thirteen
men and the boat were detained, because one of them, as we learned
afterward in Spagnia, told the Portuguese that our captain was dead, as
well as others, and that we were not going to Spagnia. [642] Fearing
lest we also be taken prisoners by certain caravels, we hastily
departed. [643] On Saturday, September six, [644] 1522, we entered the
bay of San Lucar with only eighteen men and the majority of them sick,
all that were left of the sixty men who left Malucho. Some died of
hunger; some deserted at the island of Timor; and some were put to
death for crimes. [645] From the time we left that bay [of San Lucar]
until the present day [of our return], we had sailed fourteen thousand
four hundred and sixty leguas, and furthermore had completed the
circumnavigation of the world from east to west. [646] On Monday,
September eight, we cast anchor near the quay of Seviglia, and
discharged all our artillery. Tuesday, we all went in shirts and
barefoot, each holding a candle, to visit the shrine of Santa Maria de
la Victoria [i.e., “St. Mary of Victory”], and that of Santa Maria
de l’Antiqua [i.e., “St. Mary of Antiquity”]. [647]
Leaving Seviglia, I went to Vagliadolit [i.e., Valladolid], where I
presented to his sacred Majesty, Don Carlo, neither gold nor silver,
but things very highly esteemed by such a sovereign. Among other things
I gave him a book, written by my hand, concerning all the matters that
had occurred from day to day during our voyage. [648] I left there as
best I could and went to Portagalo where I spoke with King Johanni of
what I had seen. Passing through Spagnia, I went to Fransa where I made
a gift of certain things from the other hemisphere to the mother of the
most Christian king, Don Francisco, Madame the regent. [649] Then I
came to Italia, where I established my permanent abode, and devoted my
poor labors to the famous and most illustrious lord, Philipo de Villers
Lisleadam, the most worthy grand master of Rhodi.