_ 250 _ The following year (28 March 1529), the brothers Jean and Raoul Parmentier set out for Sumatra, with the "Pensée" and the "Sacre" which had been fitted out by Jean Ango. The account of this voyage has been published(A). This voyage is relevant to the southerly routes in the Indian Ocean. As far as trade was concerned, its results were poor, but it showed the French that they could voyage beyond the Cape and return. The French had heard the call of the southern seas. Now schemes and efforts have come thick and fast. Leone Pancaldo of Savona accepted sixteen hundred ducats from João III's representative at Paris, Gaspar Palha, in 1531; for this, Magellan's former pilot was to guide Ango's men to the spice islands with the aid of a Venetian, one Giovanni Francesco. The same story was repeated when the Portuguese Pero Fernandes was bribed by Pero Mascarenhas to leave Ango's service. But João III's agents were not invariably successful. In 1532, Gaspar Vaz informed his king that Jean Ango was equipping two 150-ton vessels for a voyage to Mauritius (A) Le Discours de la navigation de Jean et Raoul Parmentier de Dieppe. Voyage à Sumatra en 1529, ed. Chr.Schefer (Rec, voy. doc. hist. géogr., vol.4, Paris,1883).
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