_ 74 _ appeared in some extremities of Moro Island to the east that are called (Sumas) and (Vedas), where to make matters worse the rulers had ordered divers to cut their mooring ropes at night, or some say that because it was a bad anchorage they were cut by the rocks. However, it happened they sailed away giving up hope of being able to land and returned towards Papua, from whence they had come. It is said that Alvarado arrived in New Spain, and nothing further was heard of him. The flagship was lost in an island below the line that the Portuguese call the Aguado (watering) line, but those of the place call (Mehunsum), which is its real name and that it is the harbour where [Savahim] was lost. From here they got into a boat and decided to come and surrender to me at Malacca. But the people of the island attacked them and killed them all except for five or six who escaped and remained sick along the shore where the ship had gone aground. These were captured by people from another island to the east, which we call Dom Jorge’s Island because Dom Jorge de Meneses, who was captain of the fortress, wintered there, but its real name is (Versai). They took them to their homes where they nursed them and treated them very well, but only two of them escaped, one called
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