ABSTRACT
[HAVING passed the said Isles of Maluco 2 certain other islands are found towards the west,3 whence come at times certain white folk,4 bare from the waist up, yet they have garments woven from something like straw, wherewith they cover their private parts. They speak a tongue of their own. Their boats are badly built, and therein they come to take loads of cloves in these islands, also copper, Cambaya cloths and tin, and they take thither for sale very long and broad one-edged swords and other ironwork, and a good quantity of gold. These folk are eaters of human flesh, and if the King of Maluco wishes to put to death any person condemned by law they beg for him to be delivered to thenl to eat as if they were asking for a pig. These islands, from which these and suchlike people come, are called Celebe.]
