Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . efore proved theworld to be round, for vessels sailing to the west from Spainhad now met vessels sailing thence to the east. They returnedthanks to God, and fired a round from their great guns. Theyhad been at sea twenty-six months, and had at last, aftervisiting an infinity of islands, reached those in quest of whichthey had embarked in the expedition. On the 8th, three hoursbefore sunset, they entered the harbor of the island of came to anchor in tw
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . efore proved theworld to be round, for vessels sailing to the west from Spainhad now met vessels sailing thence to the east. They returnedthanks to God, and fired a round from their great guns. Theyhad been at sea twenty-six months, and had at last, aftervisiting an infinity of islands, reached those in quest of whichthey had embarked in the expedition. On the 8th, three hoursbefore sunset, they entered the harbor of the island of came to anchor in twenty fathoms water, and dischargedall their cannon. The king, shaded by a parasol of silk, came MAN UPON THE SEA. 227 the next day to visit them, said he had dreamed of their approach-ing visit, had consulted the moon in reference to this dream,and was now delighted to see it confirmed. He added that hewas happy in the friendship of the King of Spain, and wasproud to be his vassal. This potentate, whose name was RajahSoultan Manzour, was a Mohammedan: he was an eminentastrologer, and had numerous wives and twenty-six TIDORE On the 12th, a shed was erected in the town of Tidore bythe Spaniards, whither they carried all the merchandise theyintended to barter for cloves. A tariff of exchange was thendrawn up. Ten yards of red cloth were to be worth fourhundred pounds of cloves, as were also fifteen yards of inferiorcloth, fifteen axes, thirty-five glass tumblers, twenty-six yardsof linen, one hundred and fifty pairs of scissors, three gongs, orar hundredweight of copper. As the stock of articles broughtby the strangers diminished, however, their value naturally rose,and a yard of ribbon would buy a quintal of cloves: in fact, 228 MAN UPON THE SEA. every thing with which the ships could dispense on their return-voyage was bartered for cloves. They were soon so deeplyladen that they hardly had room in which to stow their Trinidada, becoming leaky, was left behin
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