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Help Help Style Guide Admin noticeboard. This page was last modified on 14 December , at An infamously ambitious diplomat is angling for the governorship of a new Federation colony. He has political support, but his opponents claim he knows little of governing.

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The diplomat has asked me to make a speech on his behalf. Should I give a positive speech, give a neutral speech, or decline to speak for him at all? Give a rousing speech in support of the diplomat. Give a neutral speech to avoid sides. Two weeks later, he was successfully elected governor. He sent me a three tickets to the ceremony along with a note saying that he would remember my support. I gave a polite but carefully neutral speech at the diplomat's gala. One of his opponents later sent me a library of holoprograms to thank me for not taking sides.

However, with limited opposition, the diplomat was elected governor two weeks later. When I declined the diplomat's invitation, he seemed genuinely sorry that I would not be there. One of his opponents sent me a book on settlement governance to thank me for not giving such a speech, and that same candidate was elected governor two weeks later. Rewards shown for each choice are based on player submissions.

There may be variations based on length of Voyage and possible RNG. The diplomate-turned-governor of the Federation's newest colony has been arrested for stealing its resources to build his own estate. The resource shortages caused by his theft led to building collapses. As someone who knew him before he became governor, I've been asked to share my thoughts with the judges.

Should I suggest a lenient sentence, or a harsh one? Suggest a lenient sentence in the hopes of reform. Suggest a harsh sentence in light of the consequences of his theft. The judges heeded my recommendation and sentenced the former governor to a relatively short stay in a penal colony. Later, he sent me the structure of a duranium alloy he created during his sentence, one that could reinforce many of the buildings his actions had damaged.

The former governor hung his head but did not protest when the judges sentenced him to many years in a penal colony. One family who lost their home due to his actions sent me an antique scale, a symbolic gift for seeing justice done. The former governor I helped sentence to a penal colony has escaped in a powerful starship.

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It seems that after his sentencing, he blamed his one-time colonists for his downfall. Should I disable his ship, or attempt to talk him down? Starfleet doctors are doing what they can for him, and once he is stabilized, he will be serving a lifetime sentence. The doctors sent us a hidden communication device they found while searching him. The former governor fired on the outskirts of the colony before we talked him into surrendering.

Starfleet is still counting the casualties at the colony, but no matter the final number, his new sentence will be a lifelong one. He handed over a small photonic charge when we took him into custody. Fierce Guinan Received 4 times. Leonard McCoy Received 2 times.

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We've taken a young Trill aboard who was just rejected for joining by the Symbiosis Commission. It's hard to tell whether his enthusiasm is genuine or whether he's searching for a distraction. Should I encourage him to join, or to look for purpose elsewhere? Our passenger was thrilled when I agreed that he should apply to the Academy, and I offered to write him a recommendation letter. In between his studies for the entrance exam, he stopped by to give me an atmospheric adapter he designed in xenobiology class.

Our passenger was dejected when I gave him my answer, but a few weeks later he thanked me for talking him out of joining the Academy. He has accepted the Symbiosis Commission's ruling and is finding other ways to occupy himself. He included a few cuttings from his newest hobby, gardening.

He likes who he has become as a Starfleet cadet, but the Joining Would make his family proud. Should i tell him to stay at the Academy, or go thru with the joining? The young cadet wrote a letter to thank me for my advice. He agreed that the Academy is the right place for him and turned down the joining ceremony, much to his family's surprise.

He attached an essay he wrote about Starfleet's founding principles, saying that I had given him an example to follow. The former cadet wrote back to me shortly before his joining ceremony. He thanked me for convincing him to go through with the ceremony he'd always dreamed of, but asked that, should the joining change him even more than expected, his friends remember him as he once was. We found a Klingon colony in the middle of a revolt, with most of the population rebelling against what they consider to be a corrupt government. The High Council supports the colony's governor, though Chancellor Martok has expressed some disdain for his decisions.

Should I stay out of this internal conflict, support the governor, or support the rebels? The governor's and rebels' forces are currently locked in a stalemate, one that only intervention from Qo'noS may be able to break. In fact, the High Council sent me a drinking flask dating back to the days of Kahless, as thanks for leaving this matter in their hands. At my urging, he agreed to hear some of the arrested rebels' complaints during their trials, and he insisted upon giving me a mevak that once belonged to his father.

With our help, the rebels captured the governor and have appointed a council of captains to run the colony. Time will tell how their new government fares, and how Qo'noS will respond to it, but the council sent us an ancient bat'leth from the former governor's mansion in thanks for our aid. The Andorian was badly wounded, but judging from the Gorn's angry shouts, he may have initiated the fight.

Should I help the Andorian or the Gorn? Protect the Andorian by stunning the Gorn. Protect the Gorn by stunning the Andorian. It only stunned the Gorn for few moments, but it was long enough to get the Andorian away from the fray. He promised us he had medical supplies back on his ship, but insisted that we keep a leathery egg he had snatched from his opponent.

The Gorn scoffed at our assistance, but he left his unconscious opponent alive and returned to his ship. We found a crystalline armband on the ground that must have been dropped during the scuffle. He believes the wealthy Ardanan we once met is supplying the smugglers, but he currently has no way to prove it. Share the secret correspondences we received from the Ardanan's servant. Requires Choice B in Class Act. By the time the captain found enough evidence for an arrest, his suspect had left the system for parts unknown.

He will continue searching for her, though the odds of finding her are slim. Her family sent us newly developed anti-grav generators as an apology for their relative's crimes. The Ardanan's family are using every scrap of influence they have to get the captain demoted, though after the arrest, he did find proof that the woman in question was a smuggler.

This he did, and immediately the sailor led this giant to a little island where the captain was waiting for him; and when he was before us he began to be astonished, and to be afraid, and he raised one. He was so tall that the tallest of us only came up to his waist; [40] however [41] he was well built. He had a large face, painted red all round, and his eyes also were painted yellow around them, and he had two hearts painted on his cheeks; he had but little hair on his head, and it was painted white.

When he was brought before the captain he was clothed with the skin of a certain beast, which skin was very skilfully sewed. This beast [42] has its head and ears of the size of a mule, and the neck and body of the fashion of a camel, the legs of a deer, and the tail like that of a horse, and it neighs like a horse.

There is a great quantity of these animals in this same place. This giant had his feet covered with the skin of this animal in the form of shoes, and he carried in his hand a short and thick bow, with a thick cord made of the gut of the said beast, with a bundle of cane arrows, which were not very long, and were feathered like ours, [43] but they had no iron at the end, though they had at the end some small white and black cut stones, and these arrows were like those which the Turks use.

The captain caused food and drink to be given to this giant, then they showed him some things, amongst others, a steel mirror. When the giant saw his likeness in it, he was greatly terrified, leaping backwards, and made three or four of our men fall down. After that the captain gave him two bells, a mirror, a comb, and a chaplet of beads, and sent him back on shore, having him accompanied by four armed men.

One of the companions of this giant, who would never come to the ship, on seeing the other coming back with our people, came forward and ran to where the other giants dwelled. These came one after the other all naked, and began to leap and sing, raising one finger to heaven, and showing to our people a certain white powder made of the roots of herbs, which they kept in earthen pots, and they made signs that they lived on that, and that they had nothing else to eat than this powder. Therefore our people made them signs to come to the ship and that they would help them to carry their bundles.

These women are not as tall as the men, but they are very sufficiently large. When we saw them we were all amazed and astonished, for they had the breasts half an ell [45] long, and had their faces painted, and were dressed like the men. But they wore a small skin before them to cover themselves. They brought with them four of those little beasts of which they make their clothing, and they led them with a cord in the manner of dogs coupled together. When these people wish to catch these animals with which they clothe themselves, they fasten one of the young ones to a bush, and afterwards the large ones come to play with the little one, and the giants are hid behind some hedge, and by shooting their arrows they kill the large ones.

Our men brought eighteen of these giants, both men and women, whom they placed in two divisions, half on one side of the port, and the other half at the other, to hunt the said animals. Six days after, our people on going to cut wood, saw another giant, with his face painted and clothed like the abovementioned, he had in his hand a bow and arrows, and approaching our people he made some touches on his head and then on his body, and afterwards did the same to our people. And this being done he raised both his hands to heaven.

When the captain-general knew all this, he sent to fetch him with his ship's boat, and brought him to one of the little islands which are in the port, where the ships were. In this island the captain had caused a house to be made for putting some of the ships' things in whilst he remained there. This giant was of a still better disposition than the others, and was a gracious and amiable person, who liked to dance and leap.

When he leapt he caused the earth to sink in a palm depth at the place where his feet touched. He was a long time with us, and at the end we baptised him, and gave him the name of John. This giant pronounced the name of Jesus, the Pater noster, Ave Maria, and his name as clearly as we did: The captain gave him a shirt and a tunic [46] of cloth, and seaman's breeches, [47] a cap, a comb, some bells, and other things, and sent him back to where he had come from.

He went away very joyous and satisfied. The next day this giant returned, and brought one of those large animals before mentioned, for which the captain gave him some other things, so that he should bring more. But afterwards he did not return, and it is to be presumed that the other giants killed him because he had come to us.

Fifteen days later we saw four other giants, who carried no arrows, for they had hid them in the bushes, as two of them showed us, for we took them all four, and each of them was painted in a different way. The captain retained the two younger ones to take them to Spain on his return; but it was done by gentle and cunning means, for otherwise they would have done a hurt to some of our men.

The manner in which he retained them was that he gave them many knives, forks, mirrors, bells, and glass, and they held all these things in their hands. Then the captain had some irons brought, such as are put on the feet of malefactors: The other two giants were there, and were desirous of helping the other two, but the captain would not let them, and made a sign to the two whom he wished to detain that they would put those irons on their feet, and then they would go away: Immediately the captain had the irons put on the feet of both of them, and when they saw that they were striking with a hammer on the bolt which crosses the said irons to rivet them, and prevent them from being opened, these giants were afraid, but the captain made them a sign not to doubt of anything.

Nevertheless when they saw the trick which had been played them, they began to be enraged, [48] and to foam like bulls, crying out very loud Setebos, [49] that is to say, the great devil, that he should help them. The hands of the other two giants were bound, but it was with great difficulty; then the captain sent them back on shore, with nine of his men to conduct them, and to bring the wife of one of those who had remained in irons, because he regretted her greatly, as we saw by signs. But in going away one of those two who were sent away, untied his hands and escaped, running with such lightness that our men lost sight of him, and he went away where his companions were staying; but he found nobody of those that he had left with the women because they had gone to hunt.

However he went to look for them, and found them, and related to them all that had been done to them. The other giant whose hands were tied struggled as much as he could to unfasten himself, and to prevent his doing so, one of our men struck him, and hurt him on the head, at which he got very angry; however he led our people there where their wives were. Then John Cavagio, [50] the pilot who was the chief conductor of these two giants, would not bring away the wife of one of the giants who had remained in irons on that evening, but was of opinion that they should sleep there, because it was almost night.

During this time the one of the giants who had untied his hands came back from where he had been, with another giant, and they seeing their companion wounded on the head, said nothing at that moment, but next morning they spoke in their language to the women, and immediately all ran away together, and the smallest ran faster than the biggest, and they left all their chattels.

Two of these giants being rather a long way off shot arrows at our men, and fighting thus, one of the giants pierced with an arrow the thigh of one of our men, of which he died immediately. Then seeing that he was dead, all ran away. Our men had cross-bows and guns, [51] but they never could hit one of these giants, because they did not stand still in one place, but leaped hither and thither.

After that, our men buried the man who had been killed, and set fire to the place where those giants had left their chattels. Certainly these giants run faster than a horse, and they are very jealous of their wives. When these giants have a stomach-ache, instead of taking medicine they put down their throats an arrow about two feet long; then they vomit a green bile [52] mixed with blood: When they have headaches they make a cut across the forehead, and also on the arms and legs, to draw blood from several parts of their bodies.

One of the two we had taken, and who was in our ship, said that the blood did not choose to remain in the place and spot of the body where pain was felt. These people have their hair cut short and clipped in the manner of monks with a tonsure: When one of them dies, ten or twelve devils appear and dance all round the dead man. It seems that these are painted, and one of these enemies is taller than the others, and makes a greater noise, and more mirth than the others: The greatest of these devils is called in their language Setebos, and the others Cheleule.

Besides the above-mentioned things, this one who was in the ship with us, told us by signs that he had seen devils with two horns on their heads, and long hair down to their feet, and who threw out fire from their mouths and rumps. The captain named this kind of people Pataghom, [54] who have no houses, but have huts made of the skins of the animals with which they clothe themselves, and go hither and thither with these huts of theirs, as the gypsies [55] do; they live on raw meat, and eat a certain sweet root, which they call Capac.

These two giants that we had in the ship ate a large basketful [56] of biscuit, and rats without skinning them, and they drank half a bucket of water at each time. We remained in this port, which was called the port of St. Julian, about five months, during which there happened to us many strange things, of which I will tell a part.

One was, that immediately that we entered into this port, the masters of the other four ships plotted treason against the captain-general, in order to put him to death. These were thus named: John of Carthagine, conductor [57] of the fleet; the treasurer, Loys de Mendoza; the conductor, [58] Anthony Cocha; and Gaspar de Casada. This Gaspar de Casada had his head cut off, and afterwards was cut into quarters; and the conductor having a few days later attempted another treason, was banished with a priest, and was put in that country called Pattagonia.

One of our ships, named St. James, was lost in going to discover the coast; all the men, however, were saved by a miracle, for they were hardly wet at all. Two men of these, who were saved, came to us and told us all that had passed and happened, on which the captain at once sent some men with sacks full of biscuit for two months. So, each day we found something of the ship of the other men who had escaped from the ship which was lost; and the place where these men were was twenty-five leagues from us, and the road bad and full of thorns, and it required four days to go there, and no water to drink was to be found on the road, but only ice, and of that little.

In this port of St. Julian there were a great quantity of long capres, [61] called Missiglione; these had pearls in the midst. In this place they found incense, and ostriches, foxes, sparrows, and rabbits [62] a good deal smaller than ours. We were about two months in this river, as it supplied fresh water and a kind of fish an ell long, and very scaly, [64] which is good to eat. Before going away, the captain chose that all should confess and receive the body of our Lord like good Christians.

After going and taking the course to the fifty-second degree of the said Antarctic sky, on the day of the Eleven Thousand Virgins [October 21], we found, by a miracle, a strait which we called the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, this strait is a hundred and ten leagues long, which are four hundred and forty miles, and almost as wide as less than half a league, [66] and it issues in another sea, which is called the peaceful sea; [67] it is surrounded by very great and high mountains covered with snow.

In this place it was not possible to anchor [68] with the anchors, because no bottom was found, on which account they were forced to put the moorings [69] of twenty-five or thirty fathoms length on shore. This strait was a round place surrounded by mountains, as I have said, and the greater number of the sailors thought that there was no place by which to go out thence to enter into the peaceful sea. But the captain-general said that there was another strait for going out, and said that he knew it well, because he had seen it by a marine chart of the King of Portugal, which map had been made by a great pilot and mariner named Martin of Bohemia.

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Anthony and the other the Conception , to seek for and discover the outlet of this strait, which was called the Cape de la Baya. And we, with the other two ships, that is to say, the flagship named Trinitate , and the other the Victory , remained waiting for them within the Bay, where in the night we had a great storm, which lasted till the next day at midday, and during which we were forced to weigh the anchors and let the ships go hither and thither about the bay.

The other two ships met with such a head wind [71] that they could not weather [72] a cape which the bay made almost at its extremity; wishing to come to us, they were near being driven to beach the ships. Seeing that it was not a corner, but a strait of land, they went further on and found a bay, then going still further they found another strait and another bay larger than the first two, at which, being very joyous, they suddenly returned backwards to tell it to the captain-general. Amongst us we thought that they had perished: And being thus in doubt [76] we saw the two ships under all sail, with ensigns spread, come towards us: Afterwards, all together, thanking God and the Virgin Mary, we went to seek further on.

After having entered inside this strait we found that there were two mouths, of which one trended to the Sirocco S. On that account the captain again sent the two ships, St. Anthony and Conception , to see if the mouth which was towards Sirocco had an outlet beyond into the said peaceful sea. One of these two ships, named St. Anthony , would not wait for the other ship, because those who were inside wished to return to Spain: But, on account of the arrival of the captain-general, the Emperor did not give them to this pilot, on account of which he agreed with some Spaniards, and the following night they took prisoner the captain of their ship, who was a brother [78] of the captain-general, and who was named Alvar de Meschite; they wounded him, and put him in irons.

So they carried him off to Spain. And in this ship, which went away and returned, was one of the two above-mentioned giants whom we had taken, and when he felt the heat he died. The other ship, named the Conception , not being able to follow that one, was always waiting for it, and fluttered hither and thither. But it lost its time, for the other took the road by night for returning. When this happened, at night the ship of the captain and the other ship went together to discover the other mouth to Garbin S.

But at the end [79] we arrived at a river which we named the River of Sardines, because we found a great quantity of them. So we remained there four days to wait for the other two ships. A short time after we sent a boat well supplied with men and provisions to discover the cape of the other sea: They told us that they had found the cape, and the sea great and wide. At the joy which the captain-general had at this he began to cry, and he gave the name of Cape of Desire to this cape, as a thing which had been much desired for a long time. Having done that we turned back to find the two ships which were at the other side, but we only found the Conception , of which ship we asked what had become of her companion.

To this the captain of the said ship, named John Serrano who was pilot of the first ship which was lost as has been related , replied that he knew nothing of her, and that he had never seen her since she entered the mouth. However, we sought for her through all the strait, as far as the said mouth, by which she had taken her course to return. Besides that, the captain-general sent back the ship named the Victory as far as the entrance of the strait to see if the ship was there, and he told the people of this ship that if they did not find the ship they were looking for, they were to place an ensign on the summit of a small hill, with a letter inside a pot placed in the ground near the ensign, so that if the ship should by chance return, it might see that ensign, and also find the letter which would give information of the course which the captain was holding.

This manner of acting had been ordained by the captain from the commencement, in order to effect the junction of any ship which might be separated from the others. So the people of the said ship did what the captain had commanded them, and more, for they set two ensigns with letters; one of the ensigns was placed on a small hill at the first bay, the other on an islet in the third bay, where there were many sea wolves and large birds. The captain-general waited for them with the other ship near the river named Isles: This river comes and falls into the sea near the other river of the Sardines.

If we had not found this strait the captain-general had made up his mind to go as far as seventy-five degrees towards the antarctic pole; where at that height in the summer time there is no night, or very little: The land of this strait on the left hand side looked towards the Sirocco wind, which is the wind collateral to the Levant and South; we called this strait Pathagonico. In it we found at every half league a good port and place for anchoring, good waters, wood all of cedar, and fish like sardines, missiglioni, and a very sweet herb named appio celery.

This herb grows near the springs, and from not finding anything else we ate of it for several days. I think that there is not in the world a more beautiful country, or better strait than this one. In this ocean sea one sees a very amusing chase of fish, which are of three sorts, of an ell or more in length, and they call these fish Dorades, Albacores, and Bonitos; these follow and pursue another sort of fish which flies, which they call Colondriny, [81] which are a foot long or more, and are very good to eat.

When these three sorts of fish find in the water any of these flying fish, immediately they make them come out of the water, and they fly more than a cross bow-shot, as long as their wings are wet; and whilst these fishes fly the other three run after them under the water, seeing the shadow of those that fly: All these words are pronounced in the throat, because they pronounce them thus.

These words were given me by that giant whom we had in the ship, because he asked me for capac , that is to say bread, since they thus name that root which they use for bread, and oli that is to say water. When he saw me write these names after him, and ask for others he understood what I was doing with my pen in my hand. When this giant was unwell [92] he asked for the cross, and embraced and kissed it much, and he wished to become a Christian before his death, and we named him Paul.

When these people wish to light a fire they take a pointed stick and rub it with another until they make a fire in the pith of a tree which is placed between these sticks. Pigafetta's Map of Magellan's Straits. When we had gone out of this strait, if we had always navigated to the west we should have gone [] without finding any land except the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, which is the eastern head of the strait in the ocean sea, with the Cape of Desire at the west in the Pacific sea. These two capes are exactly in fifty-two degrees of latitude of the antarctic pole.

The antarctic pole is not so covered with stars as the arctic, for there are to be seen there many small stars congregated together, which are like to two clouds a little separated from one another, and a little dimmed, [] in the midst of which are two stars, not very large, nor very brilliant, and they move but little: Our compass needle still pointed a little to its arctic pole; nevertheless it had not as much power as on its own side and region.

They all replied, by the course he had given, punctually [pricked in]; then he answered, that they were pointing falsely which was so , and that it was fitting to arrange the needle of navigation, because it did not receive so much force as in its own quarter. When we were in the middle of this open sea we saw a cross of five stars, very bright, straight, in the west, and they are straight one with another.

During this time of two months and twelve days we navigated between west and north-west maestral , and a quarter west of north-west, and also north-west, until we came to the equinoctial line, which was at [a point] one hundred and twenty-two degrees distant from the line of repartition.

This line of delimitation is thirty degrees distant from the meridian, [] and the meridian [] is three degrees distant from the Cape Verd towards the east. After we had passed the equinoctial line we navigated between west, and north-west and a quarter west, by north-west. Afterwards we made two hundred leagues to westwards, then changed the course to a quarter of south-west, until in thirteen degrees north latitude, in order to approach the land of Cape Gaticara, [] which cape under correction of those who have made cosmography , for they have never seen it , is not placed where they think, but is towards the north, in twelve degrees or thereabouts.

It must be known that when we wounded any of this kind of people with our arrows, which entered inside their bodies, they looked at the arrow, and then drew it forth with much astonishment, and immediately afterwards they died. But they threw stones at us, and then ran away, and in their flight they passed with their little boats between the boat which is towed at the poop and the ship going under full sail; but they did this so quickly, and with such skill that it was a wonder. And we saw some of these women, who cried out and tore their hair, and I believe [] that it was for the love of those whom we had killed.

These people live in liberty and according to their will, for they have no lord or superior; they go quite naked, and some of them wear beards, and have their hair down to the waist. They wear small hats, after the fashion of the Albanians; these hats are made of palm leaves. The people are as tall as us, and well made: The women also go naked, except that they cover their nature with a thin bark, pliable like paper, which grows between the tree and the bark of the palm. They are beautiful and delicate, and whiter than the men, and have their hair loose and flowing, very black and long, down to the earth.

They do not go to work in the fields, nor stir from their houses, making cloth and baskets of palm leaves. Their provisions are certain fruits named Cochi, Battate; there are birds, figs a palm long, [] sweet canes, and flying fish. The women anoint their bodies and their hair with oil of cocho and giongioli sesame. Their houses are constructed of wood, covered with planks, with fig leaves, which are two ells in length: These people have no arms, but use sticks, [] which have a fish bone at the end. They are poor, but ingenious, and great thieves, and for the sake of that we called these three islands the Ladrone Islands.

The pastime of the men and the women of this place, and their diversion, is to go with their little boats to catch those fish which fly, with hooks made of fish bones. The pattern of their small boats is painted here-after, they are like the fuseleres, [] but narrower. Some of them black and white, and others red. On the opposite side to the sail, they have a large piece of wood, pointed above, with poles across, which are in the water, in order to go more securely under sail: They have certain shovels like hearth shovels, [] and there is no difference between the poop and the prow in these boats, and they are like dolphins bounding from wave to wave.

These thieves thought, according to the signs they made, that there were no other men in the world besides them. Saturday, the 16th of March, , we arrived at daybreak in sight of a high island, three hundred leagues distant from the before-mentioned Thieves' island. This isle is named Zamal.

He set up there two tents on shore for the sick, and had a sow [] killed for them. Monday, the 18th of March, after dinner, we saw a boat come towards us with nine men in it: Five of the most showy [] of them remained with us, the others who remained with the boat went to call some men who were fishing, and afterwards all of them came together. When these people saw the politeness of the captain, they presented some fish, and a vessel of palm wine, which they call in their language Uraca; [] figs more than a foot [] long, and others smaller and of a better savour, and two cochos.

To explain the kind of fruits above-named it must be known that the one which they call cochi, is the fruit which the palm trees bear. And as we have bread, wine, oil, and vinegar, proceeding from different kinds, so these people have those things proceeding from these palm trees only. It must be said that wine proceeds from the said palm trees in the following manner. They make a hole at the summit of the tree as far as its heart, which is named palmito, from which a liquor comes out in drops down the tree, like white must, which is sweet, but with somewhat of bitter.

This palm produces a fruit named cocho, which is as large as the head, or thereabouts: Under this husk there is another very hard, and thicker than that of a walnut. They burn this second rind, and make with it a powder which is useful to them. Under this rind there is a white marrow of a finger's thickness, which they eat fresh with meat and fish, as we do bread, and it has the taste of an almond, and if anyone dried it [] he might make bread of it. From the middle of this marrow there comes out a clear sweet water, and very cordial, which, when it has rested a little, and settled, congeals and becomes like an apple.

When they want to make vinegar, they let the water in the cocoa-nut get bad, and they put it in the sun, when it turns to vinegar like white wine. From this fruit milk also can be made, as we experienced, for we scraped this marrow and then put it with its water, and passed it through a cloth, and thus it was milk like that of goats. This kind of palm tree is like the date-palm, [] but not so rugged. Two of these trees can maintain a family of ten persons: For if they did not, otherwise the trees would dry up.

In this manner they last a hundred years. These people became very familiar and friendly with us, and explained many things to us in their language, and told us the names of some islands which we saw with our eyes before us. The captain seeing that they were of this good condition, to do them greater honour conducted them to the ship, and showed them all his goods, that is to say, cloves, cinnamon, pepper, ginger, nutmeg, mace, [] gold and all that was in the ship. He also had some shots fired with his artillery, at which they were so much afraid that they wished to jump from the ship into the sea.

They made signs that the things which the captain had shown them grew there where we were going. When they wished to leave us they took leave of the captain and of us with very good manners and gracefulness, promising us to come back to see us. The island we were at was named Humunu; nevertheless because we found there two springs of very fresh water we named it the Watering Place of good signs, [] and because we found here the first signs of gold.

There is much white coral to be found here, and large trees which bear fruit smaller than an almond, and which are like pines.

There were also many palm trees both good and bad. In this place there were many circumjacent islands, on which account we named them the archipelago of St. Lazarus, because we stayed there on the day and feast of St. This region and archipelago is in ten degrees north latitude, and a hundred and sixty-one degrees longitude from the line of demarcation. Friday, the 22nd of March, the above-mentioned people, who had promised us to return, came about midday, with two boats laden with the said fruit cochi, sweet oranges, a vessel of palm wine, and a cock, to give us to understand that they had poultry in their country, so that we bought all that they brought.

The lord of these people was old, and had his face painted, and had gold rings suspended to his ears, which they name Schione, [] and the others had many bracelets and rings of gold on their arms, with a wrapper of linen round their head. We remained at this place eight days: Near this isle is another where there are a kind of people who wear holes [] in their ears so large that they can pass their arms through them; these people are Caphre, that is to say, Gentiles, and they go naked, except that round their middles they wear cloth made of the bark of trees.

But there are some of the more remarkable of them who wear cotton stuff, and at the end of it there is some work of silk done with a needle. These people are tawny, [] fat, and painted, and they anoint themselves with the oil of coco nuts and sesame, [] to preserve them from the sun and the wind. Their hair is very black and long, reaching to the waist, and they carry small daggers and knives, ornamented with gold, and many other things, such as darts, [] harpoons, and nets to fish, like The Monday of Passion week, the 25th of March, and feast of our Lady, in the afternoon, and being ready to depart from this place, I went to the side of our ship to fish, and putting my feet on a spar to go down to the store room, [] my feet slipped, because it had rained, and I fell into the sea without any one seeing me, and being near drowning by luck I found at my left hand the sheet of the large sail which was in the sea, I caught hold of it and began to cry out till they came to help and pick me up with the boat.

I was assisted not by my merits, but by the mercy and grace of the fountain of pity. That same day we took the course between west and southwest, [] and passed amidst four small islands, that is to say, Cenalo, Huinanghar, Ibusson, and Abarien. Thursday, the 28th of March, having seen the night before fire upon an island, at the morning we came to anchor at this island; where we saw a small boat which they call Boloto, with eight men inside, which approached the ship of the captain-general.

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Then a slave of the captain's, who was from Sumatra , otherwise named Traprobana, spoke from afar to these people, who understood his talk, [] and came near to the side of the ship, but they withdrew immediately, and would not enter the ship from fear of us. So the captain seeing that they would not trust to us showed them a red cap, and other things, which he had tied and placed on a little plank, [] and the people in the boat took them immediately and joyously, and then returned to advise their king.

Two hours afterwards, or thereabouts, we saw come two long boats, which they call Ballanghai, full of men. In the largest of them was their king sitting under an awning of mats; when they were near the ship of the captain-general, the said slave spoke to the king, who understood him well, because in these countries the kings know more languages than the common people. Then the king ordered some of his people to go to the captain's ship, whilst he would not move from his boat, which was near enough to us.

This was done, and when his people returned to the boat, he went away at once. The captain gave good entertainment to the men who came to his ship, and gave them all sorts of things, on which account the king wished to give the captain a rather large bar of solid gold, and a chest [] full of ginger. However, the captain thanked him very much but would not accept the present.

After that, when it was late, we went with the ships near to the houses and abode of the king. The next day which was Good Friday, the captain sent on shore the before-mentioned slave, who was our interpreter, to the king to beg him to give him for money some provisions for his ships, sending him word that he had not come to his country as an enemy, but as a friend. In the opening panegyric, " To Brooklyn Bridge ", he mixes archaic pronouns with industrial architecture to produce a grand, impressionist picture of the bridge, inviting it to "lend a myth to God". The sequence is essential reading, but the complex counterpoint makes it tricky to select from.

I've chosen instead to represent a wonderful earlier sequence, Voyages, from Crane's first collection, White Buildings Poem V gives the male lover who inspired the sequence a halting speaking part, which adds to its intriguing complexity. Rolling wavelike rhythms are found in some of the other poems, but here it's as if the sea had frozen, its edges hardened. You can hear perhaps some of the syncopated rhythms of the Jazz Age with which Crane's poetry is often associated not always convincingly, in view of his rather tightly-controlled formalism.

It's a harsh and unusual love poem, not least because of the undertow of frustration, culminating in the unforgettable description of his relationship as a "flagless" piracy. The lover himself is a strange figure, almost ship-like, "alone and too tall here". After the brilliant and disturbing visionary flights "all the argosy of your bright hair" , the final weary pleasure in relinquishing desire might, at least with hindsight, be read as a death-wish. The last stanza suggests, perhaps, a source for Auden's more famous and psychologically reconciled " Lullaby ".

Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime Infrangible and lonely, smooth as though cast Together in one merciless white blade — The bay estuaries fleck the hard sky limits.