_ 119 _ with many skeins of cotton and a net likewise of cotton and many large baskets filled with millet. And all the things we took there, the captain-major gave to the sailors who were there with him and with the captains, save the books which he kept to show the King; and on the following Sunday we took on fresh water and on Monday we went before the town with the long-boats armed and the Moors spoke from behind the houses, not daring to come to the shore, and after firing the bombards we returned to the ships. And on Tuesday, we withdrew from before the town and cast anchor near the Ilheos de Sam Jorje where we tarried three days, hoping that God would grant us favourable weather. On Thursday, the twenty-ninth of the aforesaid month we departed from the islets, and the wind being light on Saturday morning the thirtieth day of the aforesaid month we were twenty-eight leagues from the said islets.
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