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alTu ranees of unmokfted freedom of trade at the city of Malacca. Rc- 
frelhments were then ordered for his fleet, and upon landing he was 
treated with rcfpe<5l by the inhabitants, who brought the articles of their 
country to exchange with him for merchandize. His chief view was 
to obtain information refpefting the fituation and other circumilances of 
the ilhas d^Ouro ; hut they feemed jealous of imparting it, and at length 
gave him a labored detail of the dangers attending the navigation of the 
feas where they were faid to lie, which was an hundred leagues to the 
foutheaft of Baroosj amid ft labyrinths of flioals and reefs, through 
which it was impofTible to fteer with any but the fmalleft boats. If thefe 
Iflands, fo celebrated about this time, exifted any where but in the re- 
gions of fancy,* they were probably thofe called the Ticoos, to which it 
is poffible that much gold might be brought from ihe neighbouring coun- 
try of Mcnangcabow, Pacheco leaving Baroos, proceeded to the fouth- 
ward, but did not make the wlfhed for difcovery. He reached the 
channel that divides Sumatra from Java, which he called the ftrait of 
Folimban, from a city he erroneouHy fnppofedto lie on the Java fliore, 
and paffing through this, returned to Malacca by the eaft ; being the 
firft European who failed round the IHand of Sumatra. In the following 
year he failed once more in fearch of thefe iflands, which were afterwards 
the object of many fruitlefs voyages ; but touching agjiin at Baroos, 
he met with refinance there, and periled with all his companions, 
A little before this time a fhip under the command of Gafp?r d'A cofta 
was loft on the ifland of Gamifpola (pooh Gmsz) near Acheen head, when 
the people from Acheen attacked and plundered the crew, killing many, 
and taking the reft prifoners. A ihip alfo which belonged to Joano de 
Lima was plundered in the road, and the Portuguefe which belonged to 
her put to death. Thefe infuks, and others commiued at Pafay, induced 
the governor of Malacca, Garcia de Sa, to difpatch a velTel under Manuel 
♦ Lhtrchoten makes particuiax mention of havrng fwo them, and gives praakal diicaion^ 
tar tb« navigaupn, but ibc goldea dreams of tbc POritigucfc were ftcver realised in ihetn. 
Pacheco, 
