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have made great profit of our looking-glades, but moft of them were broke by the way,and the refidue were almoft wholly appropriated to himfelf by the King. Part of themerchandize I have mentioned was taken out of the junks we captured. We thustarried on a highly advantageous traffic; but we ffiould have made it dill more lucra-tive but for our eagernefs to Return to Spain . Befides cloves, we every day laid in aconfiderable dock of providctns, the Indians condantly repairing to us in their barks,bringing goats, poultry, cocoa-nuts, bananas, and other edibles, which they gave us forthings of little value. We at the fame time laid in a large quantity of an extremelyhot water, which after an hour's expofure to the air becomes very cold. It is pre-tended that this quality of the water is owing to its iffuing from the mountain ofcloves *. In this we recognized the impodure of the Portuguefe, who have dudied toenforce a belief that there is no frefh water in the MaluCho Iflands, and that it mudbe obtained from very didant countries.

The next day the King fent his fon Moffahap to the ifland Mutir in fearch of cloves,that we might the fooner complete our lading. The Indians, who we had taken onthe way, chofe this opportunity of fpeaking to the King, and of intereding him in theirbehalf. He accordingly begged them of us, in order, as he faid, that he might fendthem home, accompanied by five of the idanders of Tadore, who by this meanswould have an opportunity of fpeaking in praife of the King of Spain , and thus renderthe Spaniffi name dear to and refpeftable among thole nations. We delivered up tohim in confequence the three women we intended to prefent to the Queen of Spain , aswell as all the men we had taken, thofe only of Burnd excepted.

The King begged of us another favour: it was that we would kill all the fwine wehad on board, for which he offered us ample compenfation in goats and poultry. Weaccordingly complied with his requefl, and killed them between decks that the Moorsmight not fee them ; for fuch is their abhorrence of this animal, that when by chancethey meet one they fhut their eyes and put their fingers to their nofe, that they mayneither fee it nor fmell the odour it diffufes.

The fame evening the Portuguefe, Peter Alphonfo de Lorofa, came on board Oiirveffel in a pirogue. We were informed that the King had fent to admoniffi himprevioufly, that, though he was from Tarenate, he muff take efpecial care, as he fhouldanfwer for a different conduct, to be fincere in his replies to the queftions we mightput to him. In faft, on his coming on board, he gave us information on every mattermterefting t6 us. We learnt from him that he had been fixteen years in India , of■which he had paffed ten in the Malucho iflands, whither he had come with the firflPortuguefe, who had actually been eftablifhed there that fpace of time, though this waskept a profound fecret. He added, that a large veffel, eleven months before, had ar-rived at the Malucho Iflands from Malacca, to load with cloves, and had effedtivelytaken in a cargo; but that it had been detained for feveral months by bad weather atPandan. This veffel came from Europe ; and the Portuguefe captain, who was calledTriftan di Menezes, told Lorofa, that the moft important news at that time was thatk fquadron of five veffels, under the command of Fernandez Magellan, had failed fromSeville, to make the difcovery of Malucho in the name of the King of Spain ; andthat the King of Portugal , who was the more vexed at this expedition from its beinga fubjedt of his who fought to do him the injury, had fent veffels to the Cape of Good

. * It has been remarked that many iflands of the South Sea are volcanic; confequently the hot waterts merely a refult of this circumftance, or the exiitedce of pyrites in the fubterranean channels throughw hich the water run* previous to its riling to the day.

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