Scheeps-togt van Pedro da Nhaya na Oost-Indien, met een vloot van 8 scheepen, in het jaar 1505 en vervolg...

that the ship of Pedro da Nhaya, due to the negligence
1505 A ship sinks.

of the skipper, went to the bottom, and da Nhaya's voyage had to be delayed while d'Almeida continued his own and remained in the harbor of Lisbon until the 18th of May, when he set sail with another equipped ship named the Holy Spirit. Beside this misfortune, Joan
Joan Leite drowns.

Leite, while they were on their way, met with another; he fell from above into the sea while attempting to hook a fish from the prow, where he had to remain forever, as he sank at once. Meanwhile, they continued their journey and, on the advice of the pilots, turned away from the Cape until they were so far that they had trouble handling the sails due to the cold,
Great cold.

until eventually some storm winds brought them into milder air. With the last storm, da Nhaya, his son, and 2 ships, including Manuel Fernando, had the good fortune of being brought directly before
Sofala.

the desired harbor, which was the mouth of the river of Sofala, where they remained lying at anchor until they heard where the other captains had remained. Of these, Joan de Queiros had been in greater danger than anyone else; for having been driven by the last storm as far as the Lagoa stream, 180 miles from Cabo das Correntes, and wishing to provide himself with water there, he had gone ashore on an island called das Vaccas. There, the people who lived in a settlement fled, and de Queiros, thinking he might find some provisions there, took the path with 20 men. Of these, only 4 or 5 returned to the ship, and those heavily wounded, one of whom was the scribe Antonio de Saa, while all the others were miserably killed by the Negroes referring to the local indigenous population of a castle. The Negroes paid to Joan de Queiros what Antonio do Campo had done, at the time when he also took water there and, according to the poverty