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goods, and they proceeded to sell and buy,
and to exchange their goods for cocoa-nuts and
other things. So I went to my companion, in-
formed him of the ship that had arrived, and
told him that I desired to make the voyage to
my country. And he replied, “It is thine to
determine.” I therefore bade him farewell, and
thanked him for his kindness to me. Then I
went to the ship, and, accosting the master,
engaged with him for my passage, and em-
barked in that ship the cocoa-nuts and other
things that I had with me, after which they
set sail that same day. We continued our
course from island to island and from sea to
sea, and at every island at which we cast
anchor I sold some of those cocoa-nuts, and
exchanged; and God compensated me with
more than I’ had before possessed and _ lost.
We passed by an island in which are cin-
namon and pepper, and some persons told us
that they had seen, upon every bunch of
pepper, a large leaf that shadeth it and wardeth
from it the rain whenever it raineth; and when
the rain ceaseth to fall upon it, the leaf turneth
over from the bunch, and hangeth down by its
side. From that island I took with me a large
quantity of pepper and cinnamon, in exchange