_ 19 _ we heard his shouts, the captains immediately stopped eating, and we did too, and we piled into the ship's boat. The negroes began to run along the beach and they were as quick to reach Fernão Veloso as we were. When we tried to pick him up, they began to throw some spears that they were carrying, whereupon the captain-major and three or four men were wounded. This happened because we trusted them, thinking that they were men of little courage and that they would not dare to do what they subsequently did. Because of this, we had landed unarmed. We then withdrew to the ships. On Thursday morning, 16 November, as soon as we had our ships rigged and clean and firewood on board, we departed from that land. We did not know how far we were from the Cape of Good Hope, apart from Pero de Alenquer, who said that the furthest we could be from there would be thirty leagues. The reason why he did not mention this was because he had left the Cape by day and he had sailed past there by night with a following wind. In fact, on the outward journey they had sailed out to sea, and as a result he had no idea where we were. Consequently, we sailed out to sea with a south-south-easterly, and on Saturday afternoon we
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