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31 March 1520


(…) and we then no longer measured the Sun until we went to a port called St Julian, and there we entered the final day of March, and remained there until the Day of St Bartholomew, which is the 24 August, and said port is at 49o 2/3, and there we wintered the ships, and there many Indians came, who are covered in tapir furs, like camels without humps, and cane bows that are very small like turquoise, and the arrows like them, and on their tips is an iron-carved flint, and they are very lightweight, runners and men of their word and of attractive features.