Chap. L Ferdinand 
and, at others, moved fo irregularly, that they were often 
forced to quicken it with -a frefli Touch of the Load- (tone. 
The South Pole they found to have no very remarkable 
Star near it, as the North has : There are Two C lufters of 
fmall Stars, and are feparated from each other at a fmall 
Diftance •, between thofe are a Couple of Stars, not very 
large Or bright, which difcover themfelves, by the Small- 
nefs of the Circle they defcribe, to be pretty near the Pole, 
at leaf; the neareft of any that are difcernible. At the 
Diftance of 20 Degrees from the South Pole they faw an 
Bland of exceeding Height, called Cipangue , and at 15 
Degrees another as high, the Name of which is Sumbdit. 
They failed in one Gulph at leaft 4000 Leagues ; and. 
Having made, • by their Reckoning, 120 Degrees Longi- 
tude from their firft Departure, they found they drew to- 
wards the Equinoctial. When they had palled that Line, 
and were got to 13 Degrees North Latitude, they defigned 
for the Cape, called by the old Geographers the Cape of 
Cottigare •, but this they miffed, going upon that old Ac- 
count of the Latitude of it, which places it thereabouts ; 
and came to underftand afterwards, that it lies in 12 
Degrees. 
9. March 6 . they fell in with a Clufter of Blands, 
being then in 12 Degrees North Latitude, and 146 Degrees 
Longitude from their firft fetting out : Here they went 
on Shore to breathe arid refrelh a little after all the 
Fatigues of their tedious Voyage through the South Sea. 
But the thieyifh People of thofe Elands would not let them 
be quiet. While they were repofing themfelves afhore, 
the other would be pilfering and Healing things out of the 
Ships, fo that ’twas impoffible for them to enjoy them- 
felves in any meafure, till they had taken fome Courfe to 
deliver themfelves from thefe Difturbers \ They marched 
therefore with a fmall Party, pretty well armed, up into 
one of the Hands, burnt fome of their Houfes, and killed 
fome of the Inhabitants ; but this Correction, though it 
might awe them for the prefent, yet could not mend their 
Difpofition ; but they that were Thieves, would be Thieves 
ftill : For which Reafon they refolved to make no longer 
Stay there, but find out fome other Place where they might 
enjoy more Safety and Quiet. Amongft thefe People there is 
[not the leaft ftieW of any Order or Form of Government, but 
every Man does what is agreeable to his own Humour and 
Inclination; Nay, confidering how univerfally that thieving, 
cheating Difpofition prevails, ’tis next to impoffible there 
fhould be any thing of that kind ; for the governing Part 
would never fail to tranfgrefs the Laws of J uftice and com- 
mon Honefty, as much as the reft ; and the Inferiors would 
never bear to be curb’d and punifhed by thofe that they 
faw do the very fame things, and fet fuch an Example 
before their Eyes ; fo that the general Corruption of their 
Manners will neceffarily keep them all upon a Level, and 
eftablifh a perpetual Anarchy among them. The Men go 
intirely naked, not difcovering any thing of that common 
Modefty which obtains amongft the moft barbarous 
People, to bellow fome Covering upon the obfcene Parts : 
That DiftinCtion indeed ceafes here, all Parts being equally 
expofed to View. Their Hair is very black, both on their 
Heads and Beards •, the former being generally very long, 
and reaching down to their Waifts. They anoint them- 
felves all over with the Oil of the Cocoa, but their natural 
Complexion is olive : They colour the Teeth black and 
red ; and fome of them wear a Bonnet, made of the 
Palm-tree, upon their Heads. The Women are much 
better favoured than the Men, and more modeft too ; they 
all wear Coverings made of the inner Bark of the Palm- 
tree ; their Hair black, thick, and long, and ready to 
trail upon the Ground ; They commend them for very 
..careful, induftrious Houfe wives, fpending their Time at a 
much better rate than the Men do •, for, whilft thefe are 
pilfering abroad, the others are making Mats and Nets of 
the Palm-tree at home ; but, of both Sides, the Work 
goes towards the Furniftiing the Houfe : Thefe Houfes are 
built of Timber, covered over with Boards, and large 
Fig-leaves, and divided into feveral Apartments : 
Their Beds are the Palm-mats, laid one upon another ; 
and the Leaves of the fame are inftead of Sheets and 
Blankets ; They have no Weapons but Clubs, and long 
1 Thefe Lands were called by Magellan , IJlas de las Ladrones i 
Numb. II. 
M A G E I L A N. 9 
Poles, upon which they put Heads of Horn : Their Food 
are Cocoas, Bananas, Figs, Sugar-canes, .Fowl, and 
Flying-fifir: Their Canoes are oddiy contrived and patched 
up ; yet will they fail with them at a very great rate : The 
Sails are made of broad Date-leaves fewed together j in- 
ftead of a Rudder, they ufe a large Board, with a Staff at 
the Top ; and may, when they will, make the Stem the 
Forecaftle, or the Forecaftle the Stem : They are al- 
ways painted over, either black, or white, or red, fome 
one Colour, and fome another, as they like. Thefe People 
are mightily taken with any little thing that is new, and 
agreeable to their Humour : When the Spaniards had 
wounded feveral of them with their Arrows, nay, pierced 
them almoft through and through, thefe being ftrange 
Things to them, they would pull them out of their 
Wounds, and hold them in their Hands, flaring at them 
till they dropt down dead ; and, after all, though they had 
been fo roughly handled, yet they would follow the Ships, 
as they were going away, to gaze at them, fo that they 
had at one time 200 of their Canoes prefting about them, 
as near as they could, to behold thofe Wonderful Con- 
trivances. 
10. March 10. they landed upon the Hand of Zamal , 
which is 30 Leagues from the Ladrones ; and the next 
Day they went afhore at Humana , an Hand not inhabited, 
yet well deferving to be fo : Here they found Springs of 
delicate clear Water, abundance of Fruit-trees, Gold, and 
white Coral. The Admiral called it the Hand of Good 
Signs. The Inhabitants of fome of the neighbouring 
Hands came up to them not long after, a People of much 
Humanity, and good Difpofition ; very fair and friendly 
in their Carriage, and appeared to be mighty v/ell pleafed 
at their coming among them : They came laden with 
Prefents of Fifh, and the Wine made of the CccoaHree, 
and promifed other Provifions in a little time. Since the 
Cocoa-wine is mentioned, it may not be amifs to fhew the 
variousUfes thefe People put that Fruit to ; by which it will 
appear, how very ferviceable a thing it is, and how many 
of the Conveniences of Life are furniftied by it : The 
Cocoa is the Fruit of a certain Tree like a Date, and fup- 
plies them at once with Bread, Oil, and Vinegar, and with 
Phyfic too. The Wine is drank from the Tree itfelf, but 
all the reft are made from the Fruit ; they cut off fome 
Part of a Branch of the Tree, and fallen to the remaining 
Piece a good large Reed, into which drops a Liquor, like 
white Wine in Colour and Appearance, and of a Tafte 
gratefully tart : A good Quantity of this, thus drawn forth, 
and put in aVeffel, is called their Cocoa-wine, without 
any farther Preparation. The Fruit, which is as big as a 
Man’s Plead, has Two Rinds ; the outermoft of which is 
green, Two Fingers thick, and full of Strings and Threads, 
and of thefe they make all the Cords they ufe about their 
Boats ; under this Rind there is another, or rather a Shell, 
being confiderably thick and hard ; this, burnt and pul- 
verized, is ufed as a Remedy for feveral Diftempers : To 
it adheres the Kernel, which is white, and of the Thicknefs 
of a Finger ; it has a pleafant Tafte, almoft; like an Al- 
mond ; and, when it is dried, they make it into Bread : 
In the Middle of this Kernel there is a Hollow, full of a 
pure limpid Water, and that of a very cordial and refrefhing 
Nature ; It will fometimes congeal, and lie like an Egg 
within the Shell. When they would make Oil, they leave 
the Fruit to fteep in Water, till it putrefies; and then fet it 
over the Fire, and boil it to an Oil ; and the Vinegar is 
only the fame W ater, expofed for fome time to the Sun, 
which turns it into a Vinegar, like that of white Wine. 
Laftly, if they mix the Kernel, together with the Water 
that is lodged in the Cavity of it, and then ftrain it through 
a Cloth, they make a good Milk of it. The Cocoa-trees 
refemble the common Date-trees in all but this, that they 
are not fo rugged and knotty as they are. They will hold 
out very well 100 Years ; and two of them will maintain a 
Family of Ten People with Wine very plentifully, pro- 
vided they are ufed by turns, and each Tree, having been 
drawn Seven or Eight Days, be allowed as many to recover 
again, before any more betaken from it. With this Care 
fuch a Number of People may drink as much as they will, 
and the Trees bear them out. But to return to our Con- 
and, in the Latin Relations of his Voyage, Infula Latronum , 
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