name was Sampilla, a discreet old man; but hitherto they could get no intelligence of the Portuguese whom they were sent in search of.  On Whitsunday, which happened that year about the middle of May, mass was said on shore and two crosses erected, at which the king appeared so much pleased that he engaged to restore them if they happened to fall or decay.  During the holidays they discovered an island in lat. 18 deg.  S. to which they gave the name of Espirito Santo[8], and half a degree farther they were in some danger from a sand bank 9 leagues long.  On Trinity Sunday, still in danger from sand banks, they anchored at the seven islands of Cuerpo de Dios or Corpus Christi[9] in 19 deg.  S. near the kingdom and river of Sadia to which they came on the 19th of June, finding scarcely enough of water to float the caravel.  This kingdom is extensive, and its principal city on the banks of the river has about 10,000 inhabitants.  The people are black, simple, and good-natured, having no trade, but have plenty of flesh, maize, tar, tortoises, sandal, ebony, and sweet woods.  The name of the king was Capilate, who was an old man much respected and very honest.  He received the Portuguese kindly, and even sent his son to guide them along the coast.  All along this coast from Massalage to Sadia the natives speak the same language with the Kafrs on the opposite coast of Africa; while in all the rest of the island the native language called Buqua is spoken.

[Footnote 6:  On this bay is a town called New Massah to distinguish it from Old Massah on the bay of Massali, somewhat more than half a degree farther north.  Masialege or Meselage is a town at the bottom of the bay of Juan Mane de Cuna, about half a degree farther south.—­E.]

[Footnote 7:  They were here on the bank of Pracel, which seems alluded to in the text from the shallowness of the water; though the district named Casame in the text is not to be found in modern maps—­E.]

[Footnote 8:  Probably the island of the bay of St Andrew in 17 deg. 30’ is here meant; at any rate it must be carefully distinguished from Spiritu Santo, St Esprit, or Holy Ghost Island, one of the Comoros in lat. 15 deg.  S.—­E.]

[Footnote 9:  Perhaps those now called barren isles on the west coast, between lat. 18 deg. 40’ and 19 deg. 12’ S. The river Sadia of the text may be that now called Santiano in lat. 19 deg.  S.—­E.]

Continuing towards the south they came to the country of the Buques, a poor and barbarous people feeding on the spawn of fish, who are much oppressed by the kings of the inland tribes.  Passing the river Mane[10], that of Saume[11] in 20 deg. 15’; Manoputa in 20 deg. 30’, where they first heard of the Portuguese; Isango in 21 deg.; Terrir in 21 deg. 30’; the seven islands of Elizabeth in 22 deg.; they came on the 11th of July into the port of St Felix[12]