_ 107 _ We spent five days here, where the people from a village that we were opposite, called Tamugata [Utagata], brought us many chickens to sell and trade for shirts and bracelets. On Sunday, 27 of the said month, we left there with a fresh following wind and we lay to the next night. When morning came we found ourselves off a very large island called Zanzibar, which is populated by Moors and which was a good ten leagues from the mainland. On the evening of 1st February, we anchored off the islands of S. Jorge [Goa and Sena] near Mozambique. The next morning we went to set up a padrão on that island. On the way there we attended mass. The rain fell so heavily that we were never able to light a fire to melt the lead to put a cross on top and it remained without one. Meanwhile, we returned to the ships and immediately departed. On 3rd March, we arrived at the Bay of S. Bras, where we caught many anchovies, sea lions and penguins, which we preserved in brine for the voyage. We left on the twelfth of that month and when we were ten or twelve leagues from the watering place, a westerly blew up so strongly that we were forced to turn about and anchor in that same bay. When the fine weather returned we started out once again. Our Lady gave us such a favourable wind that on the twentieth of that month we rounded the Cape of Good
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