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cerns between this People and them : According to their 
Promife, they came again with other Provifions, and enter’d 
into a farther Degree of Familiarity and friendly Cor- 
refpondence with them ; they invited the Admiral into 
their Barks, and were reciprocally invited aboard the Admi- 
ral’s- Ship, where a great Gun being difcharged to entertain 
them, it put them into fuch. Affright, that they were all 
ready to leap overboard ; but good Words and Prefents 
brought them to themfelves again, and with much ado 
they were perfuaded to keep out of the Water. The Name 
of their Eland was Zulvan , of no very great Ccmpafs, but 
confiderable for its Produbts: They had all manner of 
Spices in their Barks, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, Ginger, 
and Mace, and feveral Things made ip Gold, all which they 
carry’d up and down and fold for Merchandize : They were 
without Apparel, but yet dreffed at a more coftly Rate 
than the Europeans, that had it : They had Earings of Gold 
in each Ear, and feveral jewels, fattened, with Pieces of 
Geld, to their Arms ; befides, they had Daggers, Knives, 
and Lances, that were all very richly ornamented with the 
fame Metal : But though they had nothing of any Garment 
on, yet they had fomething of a Covering before, and 
that of a fort of Cloth very ingenioufly made out of the 
Rind of a Tree that grows amongft them. The moft con- 
fiderable Men are di ftinguifhed from the common People by 
a Piece of filken Needle- work wrapped about their Heads. 
They are grofs-bodied, broad and well- Ft, of an olive 
Colour ; and this Hue they maintain by conftant Unction 
of their Bodies with the Oil of Cocoa. They departed 
frem this Ifle March the 25th, A. D. 1521. and directed 
their Courfe between the Weft and South- weft, failing 
between the Ifies Cenalo , Huinanghan , HibuJJon , and 
Abarian. 
11. March the 28th, they came to the Ifle of Buthuan ; 
the King of which, and the Prince his Son, gave them 
honourable Entertainment, prefenting them with confiderable 
Quantities of Gold and Spices. The Admiral, in Return, 
prefented the King with Two Vefts of Cloth, one red, 
and the other yellow, made after the ! Turkijh Fafhion ; 
and fome of his Courtiers with Knives, GlafTes, and Beads 
of Cryftal. The Admiral fent Two of his Company 
afhore along with him, of which Antonio Pigafetta , who 
wrote this Relation, was one. When they were landed, 
the King and his Attendants all lifted up their Hands to 
Heaven, and then towards the Two Chriftians, in which 
Ceremony thefe alfo followed them ; and this Cuftom they 
obferved in drinking too. His Majefty’s Palace was like 
a Hay-loft covered with Palm' and Fig-leaves, mounted fo 
high upon great Timber- polls, that they were forced to 
ufe Ladders to get in. Though they are no Chriftians, 
yet, at their Meals, they always make the Sign of the 
Crofs, fitting in the fame manner with their Legs as Tay- 
lors do. At Night, inftead of Candles, they burn the 
Gum of a certain Tree wrapped up in Palm-leaves : The 
King and Prince, having entertained them in their feveral 
Palaces, and given them noble Prefents, difrniffed them, 
but not without new Admiration, and a firm Perfuafion 
now tooted in their Minds, that they were above the Rank 
of common Mortals, having feen fo many ftrange Things 
among them ; and efpecially Pigafetta' s writing, and read- 
ing what he had written, which were Myfteries they could 
not comprehend. In the .Ifle of Buthuan , as they lifted the 
Earth of a certain Mine, they found great Lumps of Gold, 
fome as big as Nuts, others as large as Eggs ; of which 
Metal were , all the King’s Veffels for his Table made. The 
King himfelf was a very comely Perfon, his Hair black 
and long, his Complexion olive, his Body perfumed with 
fweet Oils, of Storax and Benjamin, and painted with di- 
vers Colours 5 he had Rings of Gold in his Ears, and on 
every Finger Three ; his Head was wrapped with a filken 
Veil, and a Piece of Cotton wrought with Silk, and Gold 
covered his Body to the Knees. He wore a long Dagger 
by his Side, with a Haft of Gold, and a Scabbard of fine 
carved Wood. His Country, it feems, is fo rich, that 
one of his Subjects offered a Crown of maffy Gold, with 
a .Collar, for Six Threads of cryftal Beads: But the 
Admiral would not permit fuch Bargains as thefe, that they 
might not appear to be too fond and covetous of their 
Gold. The People are of an active and fprightly Nature % 
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the Men quite naked, except a Covering of Paint ; but the 
Women go cloathed from the Waift downwards, and both 
wear golden Ear-rings : They are always chewing Arecca, 
and fay, they cannot live without it 1 this is a Sort of 
Fruit like a Pear, cut in Quarters, and rolled up in the 
Leaves of a Tree called Betele, which are almoft like Bay- 
leaves. As for religious Rites, they had, as far as they 
obferved, no other in Ufe amongft them, but only to 
lift up their Faces, and Hands joined together, to Heaven, 
and call upon their God Abba. The Admiral caufed a 
Banner, in which was the Portraiture of the Crofs, and a 
Crown of Thorns with Nails, to be brought forth, and 
publicly reverenced by all his Men in the King’s Prefence, 
telling his Majefty, it fhould be fet up in fome high Moun- 
tain in his Country ; not only for a Token of good Enter- 
tainment for Chriftians in that Place, but alfo for his 
own and Nation’s Security and Defence 5 firice, if they de- 
voutly prayed to it, it would infallibly protebl them from 
the Mifchiefs of Lightning and Tempeft, as well as from 
other Evils : This the poor Prince promifed to do, know- 
ing no better, and glad to be fo defended from Thunder- 
bolts. 
12. At their Departure from hence, this King’s Pilots 
brought them to the Ifles of Zeilon , Zubut , Meffana , 
Caleghan , of which Zubut is the beft, and has the beft 
Trade. In Meffana they found Dogs, Cats, Hogs, Hens, 
Goats, Rice, Ginger, Cocoa, Millet, Panic, Barley, 
Figs, Oranges, Wax, and Gold, in great Plenty : This 
Ifle lies in 9 0 40 1 of North Latitude, and 162° of Lon- 
gitude from their firft Meridian. They flayed here Eight 
Days, and then, failing to the N. W. patted by the Ifles 
Zeilon , Bohol , Canghu , Barbai , and Caleghan , in which laft 
Ifle there are Bats as big as Eagles, and that tafte, when 
dreffed, like a Hen ; there are alfo Stock-doves, Turtle- 
doves, Popinjays, and a certain Sort of Fowl like Hens, 
which have little Horns, and lay their Eggs a Cubit’s Depth 
in the Sand, where the Sun’s Heat hatches them. From 
Meffana to Caleghan is about 20 Leagues failing to the 
Weft ; and from Caleghan to Zubut about 50 Leagues, to 
which they now directed their Courfe, having the Company 
of the King of Meffana , who, out of pure Friendfhip, went 
along with them ; the Admiral having by many Services 
fecured his Affeblion. 
13. April the 7th, about Noon, they entered the Port 
of Zubut ; and, coming near the City, fired all the great 
Guns, which put the Place into a very great Confternation: 
But all this Apprehenfion of Danger from the Ships was 
quickly removed, by the coming of their Embaffador to 
the Town, who allured the King, that it was cuftomary. 
with them to difeharge their Cannon, whenever they came in 
to any great Ports ; and that it was a Piece of Refpebl they 
always paid to the Governors of Towns : Lie told him, 
how mighty a Prince they were Servants to ; and that 
their Defign was to find out the Moluccas ; that they only 
came to vifit him by the Way, hearing of his Fame by 
the King of Meffana ; and defired him to furniih them with 
Vibtuals for the Commodities they had brought. The King 
bid them welcome •, but told them, that it was a Cuftom 
there. for all Ships that came to pay Tribute ; and that he 
expected the like Acknowledgment from them. This the 
Embaffador pofitively refufed, telling him, that his Ad- 
miral was the Servant of fo great a King, that as he had 
never yet, fo he would not now begin to make that Ac = 
knowledgment to any Prince in the World; and withal, 
that if he would accept of Peace offered to him, well ; if 
not, he fhould quickly have his Hands full of the War. 
A certain Moor, that flood by, told the King, that thele 
were the Pcrtuguefe that had conquered Calecut and Ma- 
lacca ; and therefore advifed him to have a care how he 
provoked them. Upon this Gonfiderafipn, the King con- 
cluded to refer the Matter to this Council, and to give 
them an Anfwer the next Day, fending them in the mean 
while Wine and Viftuafs. The King of Meffana, who 
was a very potent Prince, went next afhore, and abled very 
generoufly on their Behalf with the King of Zubut ; ths 
Effebt of which was, that the King, inftead of demanding, 
was now almoft ready to pay Tribute himfelf; which they 
not at all infilling upon, but defiring only Liberty to 
trade, he chearfully granted it, and offered to feal the 
Covenant 
