for food. They bought there swine and fowls,
receiving five fowls for one piece of caniqui.
From there they sailed near a large island, called
by them island of Xordan. There a storm with a
vendabal struck them and destroyed the said galley,
which was old. It sprang a leak under the keel,
and was driven upon some rocks near Cabite, at an
island near Canboanga. There the said galley was
lost with all its food, artillery, and ammunition.
Five Portuguese were drowned, and two others were
killed by the Moros of that land. All the Cafres
and slaves who were chained were drowned. About
forty Portuguese and twelve Cafres escaped. They
scattered into different parties, so that the natives
should not kill them. This witness fell into the
power of some natives of Camboanga, who made him prisoner.
A Spaniard brought this witness and others recently,
when they came with his Majesty’s spice.
However, this witness did not see what became of the
said Spaniards, nor what became of the galleon, except
that he heard that the galleon collected the men in
its small boats and finished its voyage, by taking
another tack, as he heard from the natives of Camboanga.
Therefore this witness never saw the said galleon again.
He heard also that the said galleon had broken its
mainmast. This is what he knows, and his deposition.
It is the truth, on the oath that he took. He
affirmed and ratified it. When this witness was
asked if he had been in Maluco, and requested to tell
what he knew of matters there, and why so many Portuguese
should go there, he declared that he had heard it
stated publicly and openly in Yndia and in Malaca,
and that he heard Diego de Sanbucho, a noble inhabitant
of Malaca, now there, say that the fortress of Maluco,
which the Portuguese held in Terrenate, was lost to
them three years ago. For after the death of
Gonzalo Pereyra, who had gone with the Portuguese to
fight at Cubu, and who had died at Maluco after his
return there, the noble above named, Diego de Sanbucho,
was captain of Maluco. He found that certain
of the married men had gone to live at Anbon and others
to Malaca, and that they had taken all their cattle
and artillery with them in two galliots, which they
now have at Anbon. The cause of the loss of the
said Maluco was the revolt of the said natives and
a war because a Portuguese had killed their king.
Immediately the people revolted, and besieged the
Portuguese. They died from hunger, until the survivors
abandoned the fort, going to Anbon, as I have said;
only two Dominican fathers remained. The said
inhabitants of Maluco refused to give cloves to the
Portuguese, and sold them to the Javanese, who in turn
sold them at Malaca. The only cloves brought were
those of Anbon, and only one ship-load at that.
The Portuguese go to Anbon by way of Jaba, across
from Borney, since Maluco was lost; the present fleet
came by way of Borney. On account of these troubles,
it is sailing straight for Maluco, in order to construct