Maluquo, as aforesaid. The said deputies declare
that, in order to ascertain where the said line should
be drawn, two charts of the same tenor be made, conformable
to the chart in the India House of Trade at Sevilha,
and by which the fleets, vassals and subjects of the
said emperor and king of Castilla navigate. Within
thirty days from the date of this contract two persons
shall be appointed by each side to examine the aforesaid
chart and make the two copies aforesaid conformable
to it. In them the said line shall be drawn in
the manner aforesaid; and they shall be signed by the
said sovereigns, and sealed with their seals, so that
each one will keep his own chart; and the said line
shall remain fixed henceforth at the point and place
so designated. This chart shall also designate
the spot in which the said vassals of the said emperor
and king of Castilla shall situate and locate Maluquo,
which during the time of this contract shall be regarded
as situated in such place, although in truth it is
situated more or less distance eastward from the place
that is designated in the said charts. The seventeen
degrees eastward shall be drawn from the point where
Maluquo is situated in said charts. For the good
of this contract the said King of Portugal must have
said chart, and in case the aforesaid be not found
in the House of Trade of Sevilha, the said persons
appointed by the said sovereigns shall make said charts
within one month, signed and sealed as aforesaid.
Furthermore navigation charts shall be made by them,
in which the said line shall be drawn in the manner
aforesaid, so that henceforth the said vassals, natives,
and subjects of the said emperor and king of Castilla
shall navigate by them; and so that the navigators
of either pa shall be certain of the location of the
said line and of the aforesaid distance of the two
hundred and ninety-seven and one-half leagues between
the said line and Maluquo.
It is covenanted and agreed by the said deputies that,
whenever the said King of Portugal should wish to
prove his right to the proprietorship of Maluco, and
the lands and seas specified in this contract, and
although at that time the said emperor and king of
Castilla shall not have returned the price abovesaid,
nor the said contract be canceled, it shall be done
in the following manner, namely, each one of the said
sovereigns shall appoint three astrologers and three
pilots or three mariners who are experts in navigation,
who shall assemble at a place on the frontier between
the kingdoms, where it shall be agreed that they assemble,
within four months of the time when the emperor and
king of Castilla, or his successors, shall be notified
by the said King of Portugal to appoint a day.
There they will consult, covenant, and agree upon
the manner of ascertaining the right of said proprietorship
conformable to said treaty and contract made between
the said Catholic sovereigns, Don Fernando and Dona
Isabel, and the said King Dom Joam the Second of Portugal.