ABSTRACT
WHEN we had come safely to land we gave thanks to God who had preserved us alive, but we were much cast down since we knew not in what country we were. The man called Roman had no knowledge of it, and could not tell us whether we were close to the island of Sancte Vincente or not, nor whether the place was inhabited by savages who might seek to injure us. But one of our company, a Frenchman named Claudio, who was running to and fro on the shore to warm himself, espied a village behind a wood, the houses of which appeared to be built after the manner of Christians, and he ran there and found that it was a settlement inhabited by Portuguese, and that it was called Itenge Ehm,30 and was situate two miles from Sancte Vincente. He told them how we had been shipwrecked and were almost frozen and knew not what
