ships ran close to land, and finding no anchorage, for the anchors failed to touch bottom, Martin de Goyti was ordered to go ahead to look for an anchorage.  Landing-parties (among whom were Urdaneta and Legazpi’s grandson, Felipe de Salcedo, Martin de Goyti, and Juan de la Isla) went on shore to gather what information they could, and Salcedo was empowered to take possession of the island for the king.  Meanwhile it became necessary for the vessels to weigh anchor and set sail, as the ebb-tide was taking them out to sea.  The small boats that had been sent ashore regained the fleet at ten o’clock, and it continued its voyage.  The landing-party had been well received by the natives who had not decamped—­an old man, his wife, and a young woman with her child—­who showed them their houses, fruits, and articles of food, giving them some of the latter.  They showed signs of regret at the departure of the Spaniards.  “The Indian was well built and the women good looking.  They were clad in garments made of palm-leaf mats, which are very thin and skilfully made.  They had many Castilian fowl, quantities of fish and cocoanuts, potatoes, yams, and other grain, such as millet.”  They used canoes, and made fish-hooks from bone and other articles.  “Their hair is loose and long.”  This island was named Barbudos. [48] No weapons, offensive or defensive, were seen.  On the tenth they reached another larger island and many small islets, which they called Los Plazeles from the surrounding shoals.  They appeared uninhabited.  The same day they passed another uninhabited island, which they called the isle of Birds, from its many wild-fowl.  On the twelfth they passed other uninhabited islands which they called Las Hermanas ["The Sisters"].  On the fourteenth, they passed islands which Urdaneta declared to be the Jardines of Villalobos.  The pilots ridiculed this assertion, saying that they were much farther on their course.  In a general council on the seventeenth the best course to the Philippines was discussed, as it was advisable to avoid entering at the hunger-point of Villalobos.  It was agreed to sail along the thirteenth degree, in which course Urdaneta declared they must meet the Ladrones.  On the twenty-second of January land was sighted which the pilots declared to be the Philippines, but which Urdaneta said might be the Ladrones, which he afterwards affirmed to be the case from the lateen-sails of the native boats, “which the inhabitants of the Filipinas do not make.”  The pilots continued to ridicule him, but Urdaneta’s reasoning was correct.  The fleet was surrounded by a multitude of boats, whose occupants, all talking at once, invited them with word and sign to land, offering refreshment.  Some knives, scissors, beads, a mirror, and other articles were given to the occupants of the nearest canoe.  On the following Tuesday the vessels succeeded in finding an anchorage, and the instructions as to behavior on land were carefully enjoined on all the men. [49]