The
16th In The Morning We Were Close By The Island Of Caia, And Had Sight
Of A Sail To The Northwards, Which We Learnt From A Fisherman To Be A
Dutch Vessel, Bound From.
Machian to Tidore with sago, of which the
natives make use instead of bread.[426] In the morning of
The 17th we
were near a fort of the Hollanders, called Tabalda; and at four p.m.
we came to anchor in the road of Pelebere, hard by Tahanue, in fifty
fathoms water, so near the shore as to be within call;, having one point
of land to the S.S.W. two miles off, another N.E. by N. one and a half
mile off, and the island of Caia five leagues distant. This night some
small quantities of cloves were brought to us, and a price fixed at
sixty dollars the bahar of 200 cattees, each cattee being three
pounds five ounces English.[427] I received a letter from Key Malladaia
at Bachian, excusing his absence, promising to be with me shortly, and
saying he had sent orders to his people to supply me with all the cloves
they could procure.
[Footnote 426: In the test of the Pilgrims, Captain Sons calls sago a
root, while Purchas, in a marginal note, informs us that some say it is
the tops of certain trees. Sago is a granulated dried paste, prepared
from the pith of certain trees that grow in various of the eastern
islands of India, and of which a bland, mucilaginous, and nutritive
jell; is made by maceration and boiling in water.
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