[205] MS. adds: “seeing that they were thus well dispositioned.”
[206] MS. 5,650 adds: “into the sea.”
[207] Albo calls it (Navarrete, iv, p. 220) the island of Gada (i.e., Aguada, “watering-place”) “where we took on water and wood, that island being very free of shoals” (see ante, note 196). This island is now called Homonhón, Jomonjol, or Malhón. Its greatest dimensions are ten miles from northwest to southeast, and five miles from northeast to southwest. It is eleven miles southwest from the nearest point in Samar. It is called “Buenas Señas” on Murillo Velarde’s map.
[208] The “Roteiro” (Stanley p. 11) says that the archipelago was also called “Vall Sem Periguo,” or “Valley without Peril.” The name “Filipinas” was not applied to them until 1542 by Villalobos (see Vol. II, p. 48).
[209] Probably the jungle-fowl (Gallus bankiva) which is caught and tamed in large numbers by the natives of the Philippines and still used for crossing with the domestic fowl. See Guillemard (ut supra, p. 228, note 1).
[210] This sentence is omitted in MS. 5,650.
[211] MS. 5,650 reads: “In his ears he wore pendants of gold jewels, which they call ‘schione.’”
[212] MS. adds: “whom he had put ashore on that island that they might recruit their strength.”
[213] MS. 5,650 reads: “There is another island near the above island, inhabited by people.” Mosto says (p. 70, note 6) that picheti is from the Spanish piquete, “a small hole made with a sharp pointed instrument.” This custom of piercing the ears is quite general among savage, barbarous, and semi-barbarous peoples.
[214] Eden (p. 254) reads: “caphranita that is gentyles.” See Vol. III, p. 93, note 29.