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Sunday, being the day of the Conception of the Virgin Mary, we fired, in order tocelebrate the fame, a number of bombards, threw feveral {hells, and let oft' manySockets.

On Monday, the 9th, the King came on board our {hip with three of his women,who carried his betre. I muft here obferve that kings and the members of ther oyal family alone have the privilege of taking their wives abroad with them. Thefame day the King of Giailolo came a fecond time to fee us exercife our guns.

As the day fixed for our failing drew nigh the King was frequent in his vifits, andwas very vifible that he felt great concern on the occafion. He told us amongother flattering things that he was like the fuckling about to lofe its mother’s breaft.He begged of us fome berfils for his defence.

He counfelled us not to navigate during the night on account of the {hallows inthefe feas; and on our informing him that we intended to fail by night as well as byday in order the fooner to arrive in Spain , he replied, in that cafe, he could do nothingbetter than pray himfelf, and caufe prayers to be offered up to the Almighty for thefuccefs of our voyage.

In the mean time Pedro Alphonfo with his wife came on board our veflel bringingwith him all his effedts to return with us to Europe . Two days after Chechilideroix,fon of the King of Tarenate, came in a boat well manned, and invited him on board ;tut Pedro Alphonfo, who fufpected him of fome bad intention, declined complianceWith his invitation, and at the fame time advifed us not to fuffer him to enter our {hips,Which counfel we followed. We afterwards were informed that Chechilideroix, beingon very friendly terms with the Portuguefe captain of Malacca, had formed a plan tofeize Pedro Alphonfo, and deliver him into his cuftody. When he found himfelfPrevented, he grumbled much, and threatened to punifh thofe with whom Lorofa hadlodged, for fuffering him to leave the ifland without permiffion from him.

.The King had informed us that the King of Bachian was about to make him a vifit,With his brother who was to marry one of his daughters, and intreated us *0 honourtheir arrival with a falute. In fad on the 15th December he arrived, and we did asrequeued, not firing however the guns of largeft calibre, on account of the heavy, n g had on board.

Phe King of Bachian with his brother, defigned for the hufband of the daughter?t the King of Tadore, came in a large galley with three tier of rowers on each fide,lr i all a hundred and twenty. The veflel was adorned with feveral pavillions formed0 . Parrots’ feathers, yellow, red, and white. As it failed along the rowers beat timeu h their oars to the mufic of gongs and other inftruments. In two boats were they°««g girls to be prefented to the bride. They faluted us by making the tour of- theVeff H and the port.

rp -As etiquette forbids one king fetting foot on the territory of another, the King ofadore paid a vifit to the King of Bachian in his galley. The latter, on feeing theln g arrive, rofe from the carpet on which he was feated in order to give him the feat^ lQ nour, but the vifitor from civility declined the diftinftion and feated himfelfe yond, leaving the carpet between. The King of Bachian then tendered five hun-patolles as a fort of compenfation for the wife to be bellowed on his brother.a f(. e e . P at °Ues are cloths of filk and gold, manufadlured in China , and much foughtln thefe iflands. In barter for each of them three bahars of cloves, more or^ given according to the quantity of gold on the cloth and the value of thethefe ^ ^ le ^ eat ^ an y the chiefs of the country, the parents wear

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