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While This Ship Which Has First Arrived Was On Its Voyage Home, It Met Two Ships Steering Their Course From The _New Gold Mines_[10] For India.

These; thinking themselves lost, or that they would be plundered by the Christians, offered to pay them a ransom of 15,000 ducats for leave to continue their voyage:

But the Christians, though tempted by so much gold, gave these people many gifts and permitted them to continue their course, that they might hereafter be allowed a free trade with their country.

[1] This letter is dated on the 20th of June 1501, and obviously refers to the voyage of Cabral, who had returned from India not long before. The writer is described as a native of Crete, and envoy from the lords of Venice to the king of Portugal. - E.

[2] The strange geographical language here used is inexplicable, probably because the ideas of the writer were confused. He seems to mean the _Mina_ in Guinea, which is _five or six_ degrees _within_ the equator, or to the north; but is at least 18 west from the meridian of Sicily. - E.

[3] Meaning the tropic of Capricorn, on which the sun is during our winter solstice - E.

[4] The recession of the coast inwards from Cape Delgado to Melinda, which may be called the Bay of Zanzibar. - E.

[5] In the map of Grynaeus already mentioned, this _Terra Psittacorum_ or Land of Parrots, is placed on the _south-west_ coast of Africa, between the Cape of Good Hope and Congo.

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