Because the light is coming directly from the front, shadows fall directly behind the subject. See the front-lighting section for more details. An interesting ring flash is the Saga ring flash. Note that ring flashes are not TTL-compatible, and must be used on manual power settings. Alex Mustard wrote a great article on ring flashes in Underwater Photography magazine issue 47 here.
He even discusses how he made his own ring flash. One interesting conclusion he made is that the lighting looks very similar to just bringing both strobes against the sides of the port, for direct front-lighting. Scott is also an avid diver, underwater photographer, and budding marine biologist, having created the online guide to the underwater flora and fauna of Southern California. He is the past vice-president of the Los Angeles Underwater Photographic Society, has volunteered extensively at the Santa Monica aquarium, and is the creator of the Ocean Art underwater photo competition, one of the largest underwater international photo competitions ever held in terms of value of prizes.
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Lighting With Strobes for Underwater Photography A guide to this essential tool for your underwater photos. How do strobes fire? I want to take a moment to explain how most modern flashes fire. Diffusers Diffusers are used to create softer light. Diffusers have the following effect on your strobe lighting: Diffusers spread out the light increase angle of coverage , which is better when shooting wide-angle.
They lower contrast and soften shadows. Diffusers can make it slightly easier to shoot silvery fish Some people use them when they feel their strobes are "too strong.
Should you use diffusers? People usually use diffusers, except when: They want a narrower strobe beam They want harsher light They absolutely need the maximum power of their strobe Strobe falloff Strobe falloff is a property of strobe lighting.
Types of Lighting Front lighting Light from the front emphasizes color and vibrance. Side lighting Light from the side emphasizes details, and enhances the shape, and especially the texture.
Top lighting Photographers shooting with one strobe will sometimes light their macro subject from the top, mimicking the angle from the sun. There are different ways to get your two strobes to fire at different power settings: Use two different strobes Move one strobe closer to the subject than other.
Use a diffuser on only one strobe. Use your strobes on manual power instead of TTL and put them on different power settings. Which type of lighting is best? One strobe or two? White balance when using strobes If you are using strobes, you should set your camera white balance to auto, or to the color temp of your strobe. Preventing backscatter See the page on preventing backscatter underwater Advanced lighting options Using a snoot A snoot allows you to place light exactly where you want it, in a small area.
Gelling strobes Placing Lee or Rosculux gels over your strobes can change the color temp of your strobe. Shooting with gels Colored gels can be cheaply purchased, cut with scissors in a circle the same shape as your strobe, and placed behind your diffusers. Read more about getting good blues in wide-angle shots.
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Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition. Their houses are entered by ladders. On Friday begins the trading, gold being given for metals and large articles, and food for the smaller wares. The good bargains obtained by the Europeans would have been materially less and the trade spoiled forever had it not been for Magalhaes's watchfulness, for so eager are the men at the sight of the gold, that they would have given almost anything for it. On the following Sunday, the king and his chief men, and the queen and many women.
The queen at her earnest request, is given a small image of the Christ child, the same afterward recovered by Legazpi, and still held in the greatest of reverence at Cebu. The opposition of certain chiefs to the king of Cebu is satisfactorily ended by the inducements and threats of Magalhaes. The latter swears to be faithful in his friendship with the natives, who likewise swear allegiance to the king of Spain.
However, the natives are loath to destroy their idols, according to their promise, and Magalhaes finds them still sacrificing to them for the cure of sickness. Substituting therefore the assurance that the new faith will work a cure, in lieu of which he offers his head, the sick man who is the prince's brother and the bravest and wisest man in the island is miraculously cured.
Thereupon many idols are burned amid great demonstrations. Vivid descriptions are given of the people and their customs and ceremonies, especially those of sacrifice and mourning. April 20, a chief from the neighboring island of Mactan sends a small present to Magalhaes, with the request to aid him with a boat load of men against the chief Cilapulapu, who refuses allegiance to Spain.
Magalhaes in his ardor, and notwithstanding the remonstrances of his friends, leads three boat loads of men sixty in all to the island, where having ordered the king of Cebui to be a witness of the battle only, he engages Disastrous indeed does that day prove, for beset by multitudes of foes, the Europeans are compelled to retreat, and the retreat becomes a rout, the personal bravery of Magalhaes and a few of his closest friends only saving the men from almost complete massacre.
Recognizing the leader, the natives make their greatest efforts against him, and finally he is killed while knee deep in the wcter, but after all the others are saved.
Pigafetta's lament is tragic and sorrowful; they "killed our mirror, our light, our comfort, and our true guide. The Europeans stunned by the loss of their leader, withdraw their merchandise and guards to the ship. Duarte Barbosa and Joao de Serrao are chosen leaders. The second act: in the drama follows speedily. The slave Enrique, enraged at a severe reprimand and threats by Barbosa, conspires with the king of Cebui; with the result that twentysix men, including both the leaders, are murdered at a banquet on May 1, to which the king invites them.
Joao Carvalho, deaf to the entreaties of Joao Serrao, his comrade, and anxious to become leader, sails away leaving him to his death. Pigafetta names the products of Cebui, and gives a valuable vocabulary of Visayan words, most of which are still in use by those people.
By mutual consent, the three vessels proceed to Bohol, where the Concepcion is burned, as there are too few men left to work all three ships; although its supplies and all else possible are transferred to the Victoria and Trinidad.
Then, cruising along, they put in at Mindanao where Pigafetta goes ashore alone, after the king has made blood friendship at the ships. There they hear of Luz6n, where the Chinese trade annually. Departing from Mindanao, they anchor at Cagayan Sulu, a penal settlement for Borneo, where the blowpipe and poisoned arrows are used, and the daggers adorned with gold.
The next anchorage is at Paragua, although before reaching that island There the rice is cooked under the fire in bamboos and is better than that cooked in earthen pots. Those people raise fighting cocks and bet on their favorite birds. Ten leguas from Paragua is the great island of Borneo, whither the ships next go, and anchor at the city of Brunei. Hospitably received by eight chiefs who visit the ships, they enter into relations with the Borneans.
Seven men go as ambassadors to visit the king, and bear presents to him and the chief men. Here some of the grandeurs of an oriental court are spread before their eyes, which Pigafetta briefly describes. The strangers are graciously given permission to take on fresh supplies of food, water, and wood, and to trade at pleasure.
Later actions of the Borneans cause the men of the shins to fear treachery, and forestalling any action by that people, they attack a number of junks near them, and capture foyur. Among the captives is the son of the king of Luz6n, who is the chief captain in Borneo, and whom Carvalho allows to escape, without consulting the others, for a large sum of gold.
His action in so doing reacts on himself, for the king refuses to allow two men who were ashore and Carvalho's own son born of a native woman in Brazil to return to the ships, and they are left behind.
The Borneans and their junks are described. They use porcelain dishes which are made from a fine white clay that is buried under the ground for fifty years in order to refine, and inherited from father to son. Camphor is obtained there, and the island is so large that it can be circumnavigated by a prau only in three months' time.
On leaving Borneo, a number of prisoners from the captured junks are kept, among them three women whom Carvalho ostensibly retains as presents for the queen of Spain, but in reality for himself. Happily escaping from the point on which one of the ships has become grounded, and the fear of explosion from a candle which is snuffed into a barrel of powder, the ships anchor at a point of Borneo.
The journey is resumed back toward Paragua, the governor of a district of that island being captured on the way; with whom, however, they enter into friendly relations. Thence the ships cruise along between Cagayan, Jo16, and Mindanao, capturing a native boat from Maingdanao of the latter island. Pushing on amid stormy weather, they anchor at the island of Sarangani, just south of Mindanao; and thence proceed in a generally southerly direction amid many islands until the Moluccas are reached, and they enter the harbor of Tidore on Friday, November 8, , after twenty-seven months, less two days since their departure from Spain.
At Tidore a warm welcome awaits them from the king, who is a powerful astrologer and has been expecting their arrival. He promises them many cloves as they wish, even offering to go outside his island, contrary to the practice of kings, to provide them the sooner; in return for his services hoping for their aid in his designs for power in the Moluccas, especially against the king of Ternate.
There they learn that Francisco Serrao, the great friend of Magalhaes, has perished some eight months previously from poison administered by the king of Tidore, whom he had visited because he had aided the king of Ternate against Tidore.
This Serrao, says Pigafetta, was the cause of Magalhaes undertaking his expedition, and he had been in the Moluccas for ten years, for so long ago had Portugal discovered those islands. The efforts of the Ternatans to gain the new strangers fail, for they are already pledged to the king of Tidore. On November 12, a house is built ashore and on the thirteenth the merchandise is carried there, among it being that captured with the various junks at and near Borneo.
The sailors are somewhat careless of their bargains for they are in haste to return to Spain. The king continues his kindness, and to humor him, as he is a Mahometan, all the swine in the boats are killed.
From him they learn the efforts made by the Portuguese to prevent their expedition, and various news of the region: and they ply him so well that on departing he promises to return to the ships and go to Spain with them. On November 16 and 17, the Moro king of Gilolo visits the ship, and is delighted with the artillery and fighting qualities of the ships and men, for he had been a great warrior in his youth, and is feared throughout that region.
On the eighteenth also, Pigafetta goes ashore to see how the clove grows; and the result of his visit is given in a tolerably correct description of the clove and nutmeg trees. The women of that region, he says, are ugly, and the men are jealous of them and fearful of the Europeans. Meanwhile, the Ternatans bring daily boatloads of cloves and other things to the boat, but only food is bought from them as the clove trade is kept for the king of Tidore.
The latter returns to the islands on November 24, with news that many cloves will soon be brought. On the following day the first cloves are stowed in the hold amid the firing of the artillery. The king, in accordance with the custom of that district, invites the sailors to a banquet in honor of the first cloves iaden.
But they, mindful of the fatal May-day banquet, suspect treachery and make preparations for departure. The king, learning of their intended departure, is beside himself and entreats them to stay with him, or if they will go, to take back all the presents, as he would otherwise be considered a traitor by all his neighbors.
After his entreaties have availed, it is learned that some chiefs had endeavored in vain to turn the king against the Spaniards, in hopes of currying favor with the Portuguese.
On November 27 and 28, many cloves are traded. The governor of the island of Machian comes to the ships on November 29, but refuses to land, as his father and brother are living in exile at Tidore a curious evidence of Oriental government The king proves his friendliness once more by returning them some of their presents, as their stock had given out, in order that they might give them to the governor. Again on December 2, the king leaves his island to hasten their departure, and on the fifth and sixth the last trading is done, the men in their eagerness bartering articles of clothing for cloves.
Then after many visits from the kings and chiefs of the various Moluccas and other islands; after Lorosa, the Portuguese. Leaving the king of Tidore certain of the artillery and powder captured with the junks, and their Bornean captives having previously given him all their other prisoners ; and having made peace with various potentates of the region roundabout.
The latter vessel, however, is unable to lift anchor, and suddenly springs a leak. The Victoria puts back to port; the Trinidad is lightened; but all endeavors to locate the leak are unavailing. The king, solicitous lest his plans of future greatness go astray, if the ships, cannot return to Spain, is tireless in his efforts, but his best divers are unable to accomplish anything. Finally it is decided that the Victoria will take advantages of the winds and return to Spain by way of the Cape of Good Hope, while the Trinidad, after being overhauled will return by way of the Isthmus of Panama.
Having lighted the former vessel of sixty quintales of cloves, as it is overladen, the ships separate, forty-seven Europeans and thirteen natives sailing in the Victoria and fifty-three men remaining with Joao Carvalho. Amid tears from each side, the Victoria departs and passing by the island of Mare, where wood has been cut for them, soon stows the wood aboard, and then takes its path among the numerous islands of the East Indian archipelagoes.
To Pigafetta, the world is indebted for the first Malayan voca Stopping occasionally at various islands, for fresh supplies and wood, the Victoria picks its way toward the open Indian Ocean, Pigafetta meanwhile plying the Malayan pilot with questions regarding all the region, and learning much, partly true and partly legendary, of various islands, China.
Malacca, and the Indian coast. Their longest stay is at Timur, where two men desert and which they leave on Wednesday. February 11, , passing to the south of Sumatra for fear of the Portuguese. On the way to the cape, some, constrained by hunger, wish to stop at the Portuguese settlement of Mozambique, but the majority, loving honor more than life, decide that they must return to Spain at all hazards.
For nine weeks they are buffeted about the cape, which is finally doubled in May, but only after the loss of a mast. They sail for two months longer without fresh supplies, and finally on Wednesday, July 9, reach Santiago, one of the Cape Verde Islands.
Sending a boat ashore. They are surprised to find themselves out one day in their reckoning, a fact that puzzles Pigafetta, until he finds out the reason later, for he has been most sedulous in setting down the record of each day. The boat with thirteen men returns once more, but the secret leaks out in part, and the ship with only eighteen Europeans for twenty one men, counting Europeans and Malays, have died since leaving Timur, part of whom have been executed for their crimes , hastily departs to avoid capture.
On Saturday, September 6, the ship enters San Lucar, with most of its crew sick, and on Monday, September 8, they are anchored once more at Seville. Next day, the men visit two famous shrines in procession to give thanks for their return. Pigafetta, still restless, goes to Valladolid, where he presents a book to Carlos I; to Portugal and France, where he tells his wonderful experiences; and finally to Venice in Italy, where he proposes to pass the remainder of his days.
December, - The Editors Xxxiii, p. The Arthur H. Clark Company. James of the Sword,1 [who] had many times traversed the Ocean Sea in various directions, whence he had acquired great praise. I set out from the city of Barsalonna, where his Majesty was then residing. I went by ship as far as Malega. Having been there about three full months, waiting for the said fleet to be set in order for the departure.
And inasmuch as when I was in Ytalia and going to see his Holiness. Pope Clement,"2 you by your grace showed yourself very kind and good to me at Monteroso, and told me that you would be greatly pleased if I would write down for you all those things which I had seen and suffered during my voyage; and although I have had little opportunity, yet I have tried to satisfy your desire according to my poor ability; therefore, I offer you.
Another light was made by means of a lantern or by means of a piece of wicking made from a rush and called sparto rope16 which is well beaten in the water, and then dried in the sun or in the smoke - a most excellent material for such use.
They were to answer him so that he might know by that signal whether all of the ships were coming together. If he showed two lights besides that of the farol, they were to veer or take another tack, [doing this] when the wind was not favorable or suitable for us to continue on our way, or when he wished to sail slowly.
If he showed three lights, they were to lower away the bonnet-sail, which is a part of the sail that is fastened below the mainsail, when the weather is suitable for making better time. It is lowered so that it may be easier to furl the mainsail when it is struck hastily during sudden squall. If he showed a greater number of lights or fired a mortar, it was a signal of land or of shoals. When he desired to set the bonnet-sail, he showed three lights.
Three watches were set nightly: the first at the beginning of the night, the All of the men in the ships were divided into three parts: the first was the division of the captain or boatswain, those two alternating nightly; the second, of either the pilot or boatswain's mate; and third, of the master.
Lawrence's day, in the year abovesaid, the fleet, having been supplied with all the things necessary for the sea,25 and counting those of every nationality, we were two hundred and thirty-seven men , made ready to leave the harbor of Siviglia.
In the midst of it was once a bridge that crossed the said river, and led to Siviglia. Two columns of that bridge have remained even to this day at the bottom of the water, and when ships sail by there, they need men who know the location of the columns thoroughly, so that the ships may not strike against them.
They must also be passed when the river is highest with the tide; as must also many other villages along the river, which has not sufficient depth [of itself] for ships that are laden and which are not very large to pass.
Then the ships reach another village called Coria, and passed by many other villages along the river, until they came to a castle of the duke of Medina Cidonia, called San Lucar, which is a port by which to enter the Ocean Sea.
We remained there for a considerable Before the departure, the captain-general wished all the men to confess, and would not allow any31 woman to sail in the fleet for the best of considerations.
We left that village, by name of San Luchar, on Tuesday, September xx of the same year, and took a southwest course. Then we went to a port of the same island called Monte Rosso35 to get pitch,36 staying [there] two days. Your most illustrious Lordship must know that there is a particular one of the islands of the Great Canaria, where one can not find a single drop of water which gushes up [from a spring];37 but that at noontide a cloud descends from the sky and encircles a large tree which grows in the said island, the leaves and branches of which distil a quantity of water.
At the foot of the said tree runs a trench which resembles a spring, where all the water falls, and from which the people living there, and the animals, both domestic and wild, fully satisfy themselves daily with this water and no other. Thus for many days did we sail along the coast of Ghinea, or Ethiopia, where there is a mountain called Siera Leona, which lies in 8 degrees of latitude, with contrary winds, calms, and rains without wind, until we reached the equinoctial line, having sixty days of continual rain.
As we could not advance, and in order that When the sun shone, it was calm. Certain large fishes called tiblhroni I i. They have terrible teeth, and when ever they find men in the sea they devour them. We caught many of them with iron hooks,44 although they are not good to eat unless they are small, and even then they are not very good. During those storms the holy body.
When that blessed light was about to leave us. And truly when we thought that we were dead men. The latter bird has no feet, and always lives in the sea. I also saw many flying fish, and many others collected together, so that they resembled an island. It is the land extending from the cape of Santo Augustino, which There we got a plentiful refreshment of fowls, potatoes [batate], many sweet pine-apples in truth the most delicious fruit that can be found-the flesh of the anta,51 which resembles beef.
For one fishhook or one knife, those people gave 5 or six chickens; for one comb, a brace of geese; for one mirror or one pair of scissors, as many fish as would be sufficient for x men; for a bell or one leather lace, one basketful of potatoes [batate]. These potatoes resemble chestnuts in taste, and are as long as turnips. We entered that port on St. Lucy's day, and on that day had the sun on the zenith;55 and we were subjected to greater heat on that day and on the other days when we had the sun on the zenith, than when we were under the equinoctial line.
The people of that land are not Christians, and have no manner of worship. They live according to the dictates of nature,58 and reach an age of one hundred and twentyfive and one hundred and forty years. They live in certain long houses which they call boii,60 and sleep in cotton hammocks called amache, which are fastened in those houses by each end to large beams.
A fire is built on the ground under those hammocks. In each one of those boii, there are one hundred men with their wives and children,61 and they make a great racket. They have boats called canoes made of one single huge tree,62 hollowed out by the use of stone hatchets.
Those people employ stones as we do iron, as they have no iron. Thirty or forty men occupy one of those boats. They paddle with blades like the shovels of a furnace, and thus, black, naked, and shaven, they resemble, when paddling, the inhabitants of the Stygian marsh.
They eat the human flesh of their enemies, not because it is good, but because it is a certain established custom. That custom, which is mutual, was begun by an old woman,64 who had but one son who was killed by his enemies.
In return some days later, that old woman's friends captured one of the company who had killed her son, and brought him to the place of her abode. She seeing him, and remembering her son, ran upon him like an infuriated bitch, and bit him on one shoulder.
Shortly afterward he escaped to his own people, whom he told that they had tried to eat him, showing them [in proof the marks on his shoulder. Whomever the latter captured afterward at any time from the former they ate, and the former did the same to the latter, so that such a custom has sprung up in this way. They do not eat the bodies all at once, but every one cuts off a piece. Then every week,65 he cuts off a small bit. The above was told me by the pilot, Johane Carnagio66 who came with us, and who had lived in that land for four years.
Those people paint the whole body and the face in a wonderful manner with fire in various fashions, as do the women also. The men are [are: doublet in original manuscript] smooth shaven and have no beard, for they pull it out. They clothe themselves in a dress made of parrot feathers, with large round arrangements at their buttocks made from the largest feathers, and it is a ridiculous sight. Almost all the people, except the women and children,67 have three holes pierced in the lower lip, where they carry round stones, one finger or thereabouts in length and hanging down outside.
Those people are not entirely black, but of a dark brown color. They keep the privies uncovered, and the body is without hair,68 while both men and women always go naked.
Their king is called cacich [i. They have an infinite number of parrots, and gave us 8 or 10 for one mirror; and little monkeys that look like lions, only The women will not shame their husbands under any considerations whatever, and as was told us, refuse to consent to their husbands by day, but only by night.
The women carry their children hanging in a cotton net from their necks. I omit other particulars in order not to be tedious. Mass was said twice on shore, during which those people remained on their knees with so great contrition and with clasped hands raised aloft, that it was an exceeding great pleasure75 to behold them.
They built us a house as they thought that we were going to stay with them for some time, and at our departure they cut a great quantity of brazil-wood [verzin] to give us.
At first those people thought that the small boats were the children of the ships, and that the latter gave birth to them when they were lowered into the sea from the ships, and when they were lying so alongside the ships as is the custom , they believed that the ships were nursing them.
While there and waiting, she cast her eves upon the master's room, and saw a nail longer tlha: one's finger. Picking it up very delightedly and ne-. Then proceeding on our way. One of them. While he was in the ship, the others carried away their possessions from the place where they were living into the interior. Seeing that, we landed one hundred men in order to have speech and converse with them, or to capture one of them by force.
They fled, and in fleeing they took so large a step that we although running could not gain on their steps. There are seven islands in that river, in the largest of which precious gems are found. That place is called the cape of Santa Maria, and it was formerly thought that one passed thence to the sea of Sur, that is to say the South Sea, but nothing further was ever discovered. Now the name is not [given to! Those geese are black and have all their feathers alike both on body and wings.
They do not fly, and live on fish. They were so fat that it was not necessary to pluck them but to skin them. Their beak is like that of a crow. Those seawolves are of various colors, and as large as a calf, with a head like that of a calf, ears small and round, and large teeth. They have no legs but only feet with small nails attached to the body, which resemble our hands and between their fingers the same kind of skin as the geese.
They swim, and live on fish. At that place the ships suffered a very great storm, during which the three holy bodies appeared to us many times, that is to say St. Elmo, St. Nicholas, and St. Clara, whereupon the storm quickly ceased.
Leaving that place, we finally reached 49 and one half degrees toward the Antarctic Pole. As it was winter, the ships entered a safe port to winter. One day we suddenly saw a naked man of giant stature on the shore of the port, dancing,87 singing, and throwing dust on his head. The captain-general sent one of our men to the giant so that he might perform the same actions as a sign of peace.
Having done that, the man led the giant to an islet in the presence of the captaingeneral. When the giant was in the captain-general's and our presence, he marveled greatly88 and made signs with one finger raised upward, believing that we had come from the sky. He was so tall that we reached only to his waist, and he was well proportioned. His face was large and painted red all over, His scanty hair was painted white.
Thaet animal has a head and ears as large as those of a mule, a neck and body like those of a camel, the legs of a deer, and the tail of a horse, like which it neighs, and that land has very many of them. Those points were fashioned by means of another stone. When he saw his face, he was greatly terrified, and jumped back throwing three or four94 of our men to the ground. After that he was given some bells, a mirror, a comb, and certain Pater Nosters.
The captain-general sent him ashore with 4 armed men. When one of his companions, who would never come to the ships, saw him coming with our men, he ran to the place where the others were who came [down to the shore] all naked one after the other. When our men reached them. They showed our men some white powder made frcm the roots of an herb, which they kept in earthen pots, and which they ate because they had no thing else.
Our men made signs inviting them to the ships, and that they would help them carry their possessions. Thereupon, those men quickly took only their bows, while their women laden like asses carried everything.
The latter are not so tall as the men but are very much fatter. When we saw them we were greatly surprised. Their breasts are one-half braza long, and they are painted and clothed like their hus When those people wish to catch some of those animals, they tie one of these young ones to thornbush. Thereupon, the large ones come to play with the little ones; and those people kill them with their arrows from their place of concealment. Our men led eighteen of those people, counting men and women, to the ships, and they were distributed on the two sides of the port so that they might catch some of the said animals.
Six days after the above, a giant painted95 and clothed in the same manner was seen by some Fof our men] who were cutting wood. He had a bow and arrows in his hand. When our men approached him, he first touched his head, face,96 and body, and then did the same to our men, afterward lifting his hands toward the sky.
When ihe captain-general was informed of it, he ordered him to be brought in the small boat. H-e was taken to that island in the port where our men had built a house for the smiths97 and for the storage of some things from the ships.
That man was even taller and better built than the others and as tractable and amiable. Jumping up and down, he danced, and when he danced, at every leap, his feet sank a palmo into the earth. He remained with us for a considerable number of days, so long that we baptized him, calling him Johanni. He left us very joyous and happy. The following day he brought one of those large animals to the captaingeneral, in return for which many things were given to him, so that he might bring some more to us; but we did not see him again.
We thought that his companions had killed him because he had conversed with us. Each one was painted differently. The captain-general kept two of them-the youngest and best proportioned-by means of a very cunning trick, in order to take them to Spagnia. He gave them many knives, scissors, mirror, bells and glass beads; and those two having their hands filled with the said articles, the captain-general had two pairs of iron manacles brought, such as are fastened on the feet.
They were grieved at leaving them behind, but they had no place to put those gifts; for they had to hold the skin wrapped about them with their hands. Seeing that they were loth to leave those manacles behind, the captain made them a sign that he would put them on their feet, and that they could carry them away. They nodded assent with the head.
Immediately, the captain had the manacles put on both of them at the same time. When our men were driving home the cross bolt, the giants began to suspect something, but the captain assuring them, however, they stood still. While they were on their way, one of the giants freed his hands, and took to his heels with such swiftness that our men lost sight of He went to the place where his associates were, but he did not find [there] one of his companions, who had remained behind with the women.
He immediately went in search of the latter, and told him all that had happened. Gioan Cavagio, the pilot and commander of those men, refused to bring back the woman that night, but determined to sleep there, for night was approaching.
The other two giants came, and seeing their companion wounded, hesitated, but said nothing then. But with the dawn, they spoke to the women, [whereupon] they immediately ran away and the smaller ones ran faster than the taller , leaving all their possessions behind them.
Two of them turned aside to shoot their arrows at our men. The other was leading away those small animals of theirs in order to hunt. When the giants saw that, they ran away quickly.
Our men had muskets and crossbows, but they could never hit any of the giants, [for] when the latter fought, they never stood still, but leaped hither and thither. Our men buried their dead companion, and burned all the possessions left behind by the giants. Of a truth those giants run swifter than horses and are exceedingly jealous of their wives. When those people feel sick at the stomach, instead of purging themselves,'09 they thrust an arrow down their throat for two palmos or more and vomit [substance of a] green color mixed with blood, for they eat a certain kind of thistle.
When they have a headache, they cut themselves across the forehead; and they do the same on the arms or on the legs and in any part of the body, letting a quantity of blood. One of those whom we had captured and whom we kept in our ship said that the blood refused to stay there [i.
They wear They bind their privies close to their bodies because of the exceeding great cold.! They notice that one of those demons is much taller than the others and he cries out and rejoices more.
They call the larger demon Setebos,"' and the others Cheleulle. That giant also told us by signs that he had seen the demons with two horns on their heads, and long hair which hung to the feet, belching forth fire from mouth and buttocks.
The captain-general called those people Patagoni. They live on raw flesh and on a sweet root which they call chapae. They also ate rats without skinning them.
In that port which we called the port of Santo Julianno, we remained about five months. In order that your most illustrious Lordship may know some of them, it happened that as soon as we had entered the port, the captains of the other four ships plotted treason in order that they might kill the captain-general.
Those conspirators consisted of the overseer of the fleet, one Johan de Cartagena, the treasurer, Alouise de Mendosa, the accountant, Anthonio Cocha, and Gaspar de Cazada. The overseer of the men having been quartered, the treasurer was killed by dagger blows, for the treason was discovered. Some days after that, Gaspar de Casada, was banished with a priest in that land of Patagonia.
The captain-general did not wish to have him killed, because All the men were saved as by a miracle, not even getting wet. Two of them came to the ships after suffering great hardships, and reported the whole occurrence to us.
Consequently, the captain-general sent some men with bags full of biscuits [sufficient to last] for two months. It was necessary for us to carry them the food, for daily pieces of the ship [that was wrecked] were found. The way thither was long, [being] 24 leguas,'20 or one hundred millas, and the path was very rough and full of thorns. The men were 4 days on the road, sleeping at night in the bushes. They found no drinking water, but only ice, which caused them the greatest hardship.
They have pearls, although small ones in the middle, but could not be eaten. Incense, ostriches, foxes, sparrows, and rabbits much smaller than ours were also found. We erected a cross on the top of the highest summit there, as a sign in that land that it belonged to the king of Spagnia; and we called that summit Monte de Christo [i. Leaving that place, we found, in 51 degrees less one-third degree, toward the Antarctic Pole, a river of fresh water.
There the ships almost perished because of the furious winds; but God and the holy bodies aided them. A "snowman" is poker slang for the 8 due to its shape, so a Hold'em player having "pocket snowmen" has a pair of eights face-down in front of him.
The bore is the inside of the barrel- that is, the hole that the bullet is fired through. The diameter of the bore is measuring how wide the bore is from one side to another. It's probably referring to episode The Pyg Chill. Pygmy crawls out of iglooPygmy eats fish in iglooDrop two pygmies in igloo to fire one pygmy out of doorPygmy hit by pygmy flying out of iglooRaise the ice monster activate in menu, flick pygmy on ice rock to make monster rise Pygmy killed by snow ball flick pygmies at monster to make him mad and throw snowballs Defeat the ice monsterFlick Pygmy and bounce off ice monsterFlick Pygmy and explode on ice monsterFlick a Pygmy into the monster's mouthMake the ice monster dizzy.
You'd say "Don't be in such an all-fired hurry. They actually are very mean and cruel to other rabbits. Yes the originial name is Pocket Monsters. I think you mean "pygmy". A pygmy is an unusually small individual. This word can also be used to describe any members of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet. Log in. Study now. See Answer. Best Answer. You drop a couple of pygmys in the igloo.
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