This The
King Promised Should Be Done, Knowing No Better, And Glad To Be So
Easily Defended From Thunderbolts.
Leaving this island, and conducted by the king's pilots, the Spaniards
came to the isles of Zeilon, Zubut, Messana, and Caleghan, of which
Zubut was the best, and enjoyed the best trade.
In Massana, they
found dogs, cats, hogs, poultry, goats, rice, ginger, cocoa-nuts,
millet, panic, barley, figs, oranges, wax, and plenty of gold. This
island lies in lat. 9 deg. 40' N. and in long. 162 deg. from their first
meridian.[11] After remaining here eight days, they sailed to the N.W.
passing the islands of Zeilon, Bohol, Canghu, Barbai, and Caleghan;
in which last islands there are bats as large as eagles, which they
found to eat, when dressed, like poultry. In this island, among various
other birds, there was one kind resembling our hens, but having small
horns, which bury their eggs in the sand, where they are hatched by the
heat of the sun. Caleghan is about twenty miles W. from Messana; and
Zubut, to which they now directed their course, fifty leagues W. from
Caleghan. In this part of the voyage they were accompanied by the king
of Messana, whom Magellan had greatly attached to him by many
services.
[Footnote 11: This is 16 deg. of longitude beyond the Ladrones, which are in
216 deg. 30' W. and would consequently give the longitude of Zubut as 232 deg.
30' W. or 107 deg. 30' E. from Greenwich.
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