_ 39 _ jam with cloves and cumin. Later on he sent many things to the captain. This was during the time they thought that we were Turks or Moors from another area, because they asked if we had come from Turkey and requested us to show them the bows of our country and the books of our religion. When they learned that we were Christians, they gave orders for us to be seized and treacherously killed, but the pilot whom we had taken with us, revealed to us everything that they intended doing given the opportunity. On Sunday we celebrated mass on the island in the shade of a tall grove and after mass we returned to the ships. We immediately set sail and continued our journey, taking with us many chickens, goats and pigeons which we had received in exchange for some yellow glass beads. On Tuesday we saw a country, with high mountains and a cape. The seaboard of this cape was sparsely covered with a forest of tall trees that looked like elms. The land itself was about twenty leagues at the most from the place from which we had set out. We were becalmed here on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the next night we made our way out to sea with a light easterly wind. When dawn broke we found ourselves four leagues short of Mozambique. That
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