constable of the fleet should be captain of one of the ships; he was named Gonzalo Vaz Despinosa.[1]
Having done this they set sail, and ran about twenty-five leagues with three ships, which they still possessed; they then mustered, and found that they were altogether one hundred and eight men[2] in all these three ships, and many of them were wounded and sick, on which account they did not venture to navigate the three ships, and thought it would be well to burn one of them—the one that should be most suitable for that purpose[3]—and to take into the two ships those that remained: this they did out at sea, out of sight of any land. While they did this many paraos came to speak to them; and navigating amongst the islands, for in that neighbourhood there are a great many, they did not understand one another, for they had no interpreter, for he had been killed with Fernan de Magalhāes. Sailing further on amongst islets they came to anchor at an island which is named Carpyam,[4] where there is gold enough, and this island is in fully eight degrees.
Whilst at anchor in this port of Capyam,[5] they had speech with the inhabitants of the island, and made peace with them, and Carvalho, who was captain-major, gave them the boat of the ship which had been burnt: this island has three[6] islets in the offing; here they took in some refreshments, and sailed further on to west south-west, and fell in with another island, which is named Caram, and is in eleven degrees; from this they went on further to west south-west,[7]
- ↑ Paris MS.: "Gonzalo Gomez Despinosa." Lisbon Ac. note.
- ↑ Barros says 180 men, and this seems more probable, considering the number of the men who sailed in the fleet and of those who might then have been lost, and those who were lost later, and also of those who at last reached Ternate and Europe. Lisbon Ac. note. The Madrid MS. has 180 men, written in full, " Semte he oytēta homēs."
- ↑ Pigafetta says they burned the ship Conception.
- ↑ Paris MS., "Quype." Lisbon Ac. note.
- ↑ Paris MS., "Quype." Lisbon Ac. note.
- ↑ Paris MS. has "two islets." Lisbon Ac. note.
- ↑ Paris MS.: "which is named Cagujam, and is in seven degrees;
