. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. from Timor toSumatra on the 8th January 1522, passed through itin a storm so severe that all vowed a pilgrimage toN. S. de la Guia.^ The ship was allowed to run beforethe gale on an easterly course, coasting the southernside of the chain, and eventually the island of Mallua—now Ombay—was reached in safety. Here they spent fifteen days. The ship stood in needof caulking, and the crew were kept at work at it. 1 What passage was chosen by the Victoria is uncertain, but thereis no doubt that it was either Flo
. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. from Timor toSumatra on the 8th January 1522, passed through itin a storm so severe that all vowed a pilgrimage toN. S. de la Guia.^ The ship was allowed to run beforethe gale on an easterly course, coasting the southernside of the chain, and eventually the island of Mallua—now Ombay—was reached in safety. Here they spent fifteen days. The ship stood in needof caulking, and the crew were kept at work at it. 1 What passage was chosen by the Victoria is uncertain, but thereis no doubt that it was either Flores Strait or Boleng Strait, fromdetails in Pigafetta and Alvos log-book. T 290 LIFE OF MAGELLAN. [CHAP. XL Ombay is to this day almost unknown, and the descrip-tion given by the Victorians people of its inhabitants isprobably true even now. They seem to have been ofPapuan origin, judging from Pigafettas account of their hair raised high up by means of cane combs with longteeth, and also by the beard being encased in reedtubes, a thing, he adds, which seemed to us TIMOR AND FLORES. On Saturday, January 25th, del Cano sailed from Om-bay, and having run some twenty miles to the ,arrived at the large island of Timor. The Portugueseat that time had no settlements upon it as they havenow, and indeed had never even visited it, but it wasrenowned throughout the archipelago for its trade insandalwood and wax, and at the time of the Spaniardsvisit a Luzon junk was trading in the port at which 1522.] VOYAGE ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN. 291 they touched. Having some difficulty in getting provi-sions, the captain ordered one of the chiefs who hadvisited the vessel to be detained until he ransomed him-self with live stock, but on receiving this del Cano gavehim an equivalent value in articles of barter and senthim away satisfied. The Victoria then continued hervoyage, coasting the north-western side of the islanduntil its terminal cape was reached. On the 13 th ofFebr
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