ABSTRACT
GOING yet further after passing these Islands of Jaoa the Greater and the Lesser there are in that sea many other Islands both great and small inhabited by Heathen with some Moors. Among these is one which they call Timor,3 which has its own independent King and tongue. In this Island there is abundance of white 1 sanders-wood which the Moors in India and Persia value greatly, where much of it is used. In Malabar, Narsyngua and Cambaya it is much esteemed." The ships "of Malaca and Jaoa" which come hither for it bring in exchange axes, hatchets, knives, swords, Cambaya and Paleacate cloths, porcelain, coloured beads, tin, quick-silver, lead and other wares, and take in cargoes of the aforesaid sanders-wood, honey, wax, slaves and also a certain amount of pepper which grows in that land. [For "pepper" the Spanish version and Ramusio read If "silver".]
