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 river so very hot that it takes off the skin of any living
creature that bathes in its waters, and yet contains living fish.
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