ABSTRACT

Portuguese had a settlement called Marin.16 The commander was named Artokoslio,17 to whom we delivered our prisoners and some of our cargo, intending to sail away and take in fresh cargo elsewhere.

CHAPTER III How the savages of the place called

Prannenbucke (Pernambuco) rebelled and strove to expel the Portuguese from

their settlement. IT so happened that the savages who inhabit this place rebelled against the Portuguese who had enslaved them, and the commander besought us for the love of God to occupy a settlement called Garasu,18 five miles from the harbour of Marin where we lay, which had been attacked by the savages. The people at Marin were powerless to