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] in 22 deg., where they heard again of
the Portuguese of whom they were in search, from _Dissamuta_ the king of
that part of the country.
