_ 43 _ religion, and a chest with numerous skeins of cotton thread. We also found a cotton hammock and many baskets full of corn. The captain-major gave all the things that were there to the sailors and the captains that had been with him there, apart from the books which he kept to show the King. The following Sunday we took on water. On the Monday we stood off the town, with our boats armed, and the Moors spoke to us from behind their houses because they did not dare to come to the beach. Having fired a few bombards at them, we went to anchor near the islands of St. George [Goa and Sena] where we stayed for three more days waiting for God to give us fine weather. On Thursday, the twenty-ninth of that month, we left those islands, but because there was little wind, when Saturday morning, the thirtieth (sic) of that month, dawned, we were 28 leagues from the said islands. By the morning of that day we had progressed as far as the land of the Moors, from which we had been forced back by the powerful currents. On Sunday, 1 April, we went to some islands lying parallel to the mainland. The first of these was given the name "The Island of the Flogged Man" [Quisiva] because, on the Saturday evening, the Moorish pilot whom we were taking with us, lied to the captain claiming that
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