_ 105 _ night, because we did not know how far we were from Malindi, where we wanted to go. On Saturday, the fifth of that month, while we were becalmed, a thunderstorm suddenly started and broke the halyards of the S. Rafael. While we were repairing that ship, a pirate appeared from a town called Patta with eight boats full of people. When they were at a bombard's distance from us we fired at them and they immediately fled towards the land. We did not follow them because we had no wind. On Monday, the seventh of the said month, we went to anchor off Malindi, where the king sent a long boat loaded with people and a number of sheep. He informed the captain that he was welcome and that he had been waiting for him for some days. He then gave expression to many more words of friendship and peace. The next day, the captain ordered a man ashore with those that had arrived, to bring back some oranges that the sick that we had brought needed. In fact, they brought them straightaway with many other fruits, though the sick did not benefit, as the climate exhausted them to such a degree that many of them died there. Then a great number of Moors came aboard by order of the king and they brought many chickens and eggs to trade. When the captain saw that they were showing us so
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