feathers[25].  Beyond these islands they came to numbers of others, lying in 7 or 8 degrees of south latitude, all so close together as to appear like one entire mainland, and stretching near 500 leagues in length.  The ancient cosmographers describe all these islands by one general name, the Javos; but more recent knowledge has found that they have all separate names.  Beyond these, and more to the north, there are other islands, which are inhabited by a whiter people, clothed in shirts, doublets, and trowsers, something like the Portuguese dress, and who also have silver money.  Their magistrates carry red staves in their hands, as badges of command, and seem to have some affinity in this respect with the people of China.  There are other islands in these parts, or which the inhabitants are red; and it is reported they are the same people with the Chinese.

De Breu went northwards to the small island of Gumnape or Ternate, from the highest part of which flakes or streams like fire fell continually into the sea.  He went thence to the islands of Burro and Amboyna, and came to anchor in the haven of Guliguli, where, in a village near a river, they found dead men hanging up in the houses, as the people are cannibals.  Here they burnt the ship of Serrano, as she was old and rotten; and going to a place on the other side of the island, in 8 deg.  S. they loaded cloves, nutmegs, and mace, in a junk or barque, which Serrano bought.  It is said, that in an island not far from Banda, there are immense quantities of snakes, especially in a cave in the centre of the island.  The same is said of Formentera, in the Mediterranean, anciently Ophiusa, between Majorca and Minorca.  On their return from Banda towards Malacca, in 1512, Francis Serrano perished with his junk on the flats called Baxos de Lucapinho, nine or ten of the Portuguese crew escaping to the island of Mindanao, who were sent for by the kings of the Moluccas.  These were the first of the Portuguese who came to the Islands of Cloves, which are in lat. 1 deg.  N. and they remained there seven or eight years.  Some Portuguese and princes of the Moors once endeavoured to go near that part of the isle of Ternate which throws out fire, but could not accomplish it.  But Antonio Galvano accomplished this enterprise, and found a spring so cold that he could not bear his hand in the water, nor suffer any of it in his mouth, though almost directly under the line.

In these Molucca islands, there are certain men who have spurs on their ancles like cocks; and I was told by the king of Tidore, that in the islands of Batochina, there are people with tails, who have a lactiferous nipple on the scrotum.  There are small hens also in these parts, many of which are black in the flesh, and lay their eggs, larger than those of ducks, in holes above nine feet under ground.  They have likewise hogs with horns, and excellent talking parrots, which they call Noris.  There is also a