pigafetta’s voyage round the world.

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herb; thefe arrows are not trimmed at the end with feathers, but with a ftrip ofvery foft and light wood. To the end of the farbacane they fallen an iron head whentheir arrows are expended, and ufe it as a lance.

They have likewife large tame cocks, which, from fuperllition, they do not eat; butwhich they keep for fighting ; at mains of thefe birds confiderable wagers are laid, andprizes are alligned to the owners of the conquerors.

From Palaoan, fleering fouth-weft, after failing ten leagues, we fell in with anotherifland. On failing along its Ihores, it feemed to us to afcend # . We coalled along itthe fpace of fifty f leagues at leaft before we met with an anchorage. Scarcely had weanchored before a tempeft arofe. The Iky was overcall, and we faw the light ofSaint Elme fettle on our mall.

The following day, 9 th of July, the King fent to the veffels a handfome pirogue, theprow and poop of which were adorned with gold. On the prow was a blue and whitepavilion, furmounted by a tuft of peacocks’ feathers. In this pirogue were muficianswho played on the bagpipe and drums, and with them a number of other perfons.The pirogue, which is a kind of galley, was followed by two almadies or filhing-boats.Eight of the chief people of the illand who were in the pirogue came on board ourvelfel, and took their feats on a carpet fpread for the purpofe in the hind-callle, wherethey prefented us with a wooden vafe full of betel areca, which they continually chew,together with orange flowers and jelfamine: the whole was covered with a cloth ofyellow 111k. They likewife gave to us two balkets of fowls, two goats, three vafes ofdillilled wine, and fome fugar canes. To the other velfel they made a fimilar prefent,and after embracing us they went their ways.

The wine extracted from rice is as clear as water, but fo Itrong that many of ourcrew were intoxicated with a very moderate ufe of the liquor. The name they give itis arach.

Six days after, the King fent three other pirogues beautifully ornamented, which wererowed round our velfels, the muficians on board playing all the while on the bagpipe,gongs, and drums. The people on board faluted us by taking off their caps, which arefo little they fcarcely cover the top of the head. We returned the falute with a dif-charge of our bombards, but without loading them with Hones. They brought us fe-veral different dilhes of rice, varioully prepared, now in oblong pieces enveloped in leaves,now in the lhape of a fugar loaf, and now made into cakes with eggs and honey.

After thefe prefents on the part of the King, they informed us that he readily grantedns permiffion to wood and water on his illand, and that we were at liberty to trade toa ny extent with the inhabitants. On this intimation feven of us were difpatched withPrefents for the King, the Queen, and their minilters. The prefent for the King con-filled of a Turkilh drefs of greea velvet, a chair covered with violet-coloured filk, fiveyards of red cloth, a cap, a glafs goblet gilt, and three quires of paper ; that for theQueen confilted of three yards of yellow cloth, a pair of lhoes embroidered with filver,a nd a filver etwee full of pins. For the chief miniller we carried three yards of redc joth, a cap, and a glafs goblet gilt; for the king at arms, or herald, who came with thepirogue, a Turkilh drefs of red and green cloth, a cap, and a quire of paper; forthe feven other perfonages who came with him, we likewife took prefents, fome yards°f cloth for example, a cap each, and a quire of paper. When all the prefentswereready, we entered one of the three pirogues.

* That is to fay, move in a contrary diredtion, owing to the adverfe currents.

J" Tabre fays ten leagues, and Ramufio five : our manufcript plainly expreffes fifty, which is the real

ntance from the fouthern point of Paragoa to the city of Borneo .