Item, Cape Guardafui whither it was navigated from Buena Esperanza to the northeast, with a north and south distance of fifty and one-half degrees, and a run of fifty-six degrees; Item, Cape Comerin whither it was navigated from Guardafui in an east and west direction, one-half degree northwest, five degrees east, and a run of twenty degrees; Item, to Zamatra and up to the point called Ganispola, a run of fifteen and one-half degrees, from which point to the Malucos it was twenty-seven degrees.

Thereupon the judges for Portugal, with the exception of Francisco de Melo, who had departed, said they would answer the other points made by the deputies from Castilla in the morning.

May 24. Ibid. The judges for Castilla presented the following writ:  “To say that the maps were only for the purpose of locating the Cabo Verde islands is strange, inasmuch as we are discussing the bringing by each side of our respective navigations, in order to determine the distance of the Malucos, as witness the members of the Council, who were and are present.  It is also strange that among such persons they should withdraw the plans and maps of their navigation, and not allow us to examine them.  In our navigation the only thing necessary is to see the distance in dispute, and we will locate on it anything else they wish.  The line is drawn according to our opinion.  Let them do the same on theirs meanwhile, in order that it may not prove an obstacle to the third point.  As to what they say about their map being like ours, it is not so, for they have located only capes and points.  We show the entire navigation up to the Malucos just as they saw it therein.  As to the principal matter that there are one hundred and thirty-four degrees eastward from La Sal to Maluco, that is a matter we shall look into, and discuss, and say what we shall deduce as the truth.  As to whether we have located the Cabo Verde islands properly, why was there no doubt about that when they agreed to it yesterday afternoon, comparing them in the book of Domingo Lopez de Sequerra, wherein the whole world is shown in meridian circles?  Pero Alfonso de Aguiar assured the licentiate Acevedo, who showed doubt upon the matter, many times of this.  But for greater abundance of proof we are going to bring back the maps so that they will be sure of it.” [This writ seems to be an answer to the following one, but they are in the order written.]

Then the following writ of the judges for Portugal was read.  In substance it said that the maps presented by Castilla located the Cabo Verde islands farther west than they should be; that it was unnecessary to present maps showing their navigations, since the only thing they ought to discuss was the location of the Cabo Verde islands.

Then the judges for Castilla offered for a second time their map with the Cabo Verde islands, from which the measurements were taken.

In the afternoon the Portuguese deputies said in substance that the navigations should not be examined, but only the locations of the Cabo Verde islands with their respective distances.  This ought to be done in order to determine the meridian at the three hundred and seventy leagues.