CHAPTER XIII - How the ships went away from Mozambique along the coast; and of what happened by the way until they reached Melinde

Summary

In proceeding on their voyage, as the wind did not serve for going along the coast, they went and anchored off an island, which is at the distance of one league from Mozambique, to

Porque podessem ser aventurados

Em casos desta sorte duvidosos,

Manda dous—

7.

But from a class condemn'd at home for crime,

Reprieved from death, and with the Armada sent

To be adventured, at the chieftain's time,

Where risk of nobler life were wealth misspent,

Two he selects—

Quillinan.

wait for the wind, and to allow of the canoe returning from Mozambique; but it did not return because the Sheikh was much pleased at being able to keep Joan Machado as a captive, in remembrance of those Christian ships having come there. After hearing the message of the captain-major he was for a long time talking to Joan Machado, and would not send an answer, though he saw very well that the ships were at the island, because he was afraid that the captain-major would capture the people who might go there because they did not bring back Joan Machado, whom he did not wish to send back. This Joan Machado profited very much afterwards by thus remaining there, because he went thence through many countries and passed to Cambay, and from that place to other countries, and learned all the languages, for he was a man of good understanding, and he devoted himself to good, so that he became an honourable man, as will be related further on in this book.