Nicolau Coelho

e daly ouvemos vista de homeens que amdavam pola praya obra de sete ou oito, segundo hos navios pequenos diseram por chegarem primeiro aly. Lamçamos hos batees, e esquifes fóra, e vieram logo todolos Capitaaos das naaos a esta naao do Capitam moor, e aly falaram: e ho Capitam mandou no bateel em terra Nicolaao Coelho pera veer aquele Rio: e tamto que ele começou pera la de hyr, acodiram pola praya homeens quando dous, quando tres; de maneira que quando ho bateel chegou aa boca do Rio, heram aly dezoito, ou vimte homeens pardos todos nuus sem nhuuma coussa, que lhes cobrise suas vergonhas.

From there we saw men walking along the beach, about seven or eight of them, as the small ships reported, since they had arrived first. We put out the boats and skiffs, and all the ships' captains came at once to the Captain-major's ship and talked there. The Captain sent Nicolaao Coelho ashore in the boat to look at that river. As soon as he started toward it, men came running along the beach, two at a time, then three. By the time the boat reached the river mouth, eighteen or twenty men were there. They were brownish and all naked, with nothing to cover their private parts.

Traziam arcos nas maaos, e suas seetas: vynham todos rijos pera aho bateel; e Nicolaao Coelho lhes fes synaal que posesem hos arcos, e eles hos poserom aly: nom pode delos aveer fala nem emtemdimento que aproveitase polo mar quebrar na costa: soomente deo lhes huum barete vermelho, e huuma carapuça de linho que levava na cabeça, e huum sombreyro preto: e huum deles lhe deo huum sombreyro de penas daves compridas com huuma copezinha pequena de penas vermelhas, e pardas coma de papagayo: e outro lhe deo huum Ramal gramde de comtinhas bramcas, meudas, que querem parecer d'aljaveira: has quaaes peças creo que ho Capitam manda a V. A. E com isto se voltou aas naaos por seer tarde, e nom poder delles aver mais fala por aazo do mar.

They carried bows and arrows in their hands, and they all came boldly toward the boat. Nicolaao Coelho signed to them to lay down their bows, and they laid them down. He could not talk with them or make himself understood to any purpose, because the sea was breaking on the shore. He only gave them a red cap, a linen hood he had on his head, and a black hat. One of them gave him a hat of long bird feathers with a small crown of red and brownish feathers, like a parrot's. Another gave him a large string of tiny white beads that look like aljaveira. I believe the Captain is sending these things to Your Highness. With that Coelho went back to the ships, because it was late, and the sea kept them from talking any more.

Ho Capitam, quando eles vieram, estava asentado em huuma cadeyra, e huuma alcatifa ahos pees por estrado, e beem vestido com huum colar douro muy gramde aho pescoço: e Sancho de Toar, e Simam de Miramda, e Nicolaao Coelho, e Ayres Corea, e nós outros que aquy na naao com ele himos asentados no chaao per esa alcatifa. Acemderam tochas, e emtraram, e nom fezeram nhuuma mençam de cortesia, nem de falar aho Capitam, nem a ninguem: pero huum deles pos ho olho no colar do Capitam, e começou dacenar com ha maao pera aa terra; e despois pera aho colar, coma que dezia que avia em terra ouro: e tambem vio huum castiçal de prata, e asy meesmo acenava pera aa terra, e emtam pera aho castiçal, coma que avia tambeem prata.

When they came, the Captain was seated in a chair, with a carpet at his feet as a dais. He was well dressed, with a very large gold collar around his neck. Sancho de Toar, Simam de Miramda, Nicolaao Coelho, Ayres Corea, and the rest of us who sail with him in this ship were seated on the floor on that carpet. Torches were lit, and the two came in. They made no sign of courtesy and did not speak to the Captain or to anyone. But one of them fixed his eye on the Captain's collar. He began to point toward the land with his hand, and then toward the collar, as if he were saying there was gold in the land. He also saw a silver candlestick, and in the same way he pointed toward the land and then toward the candlestick, as if there were silver there too.