Pedro Álvares Cabral

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.

E seendo Afonso Lopes, noso piloto em huum daqueles navios pequenos per mandado do Capitam moor, per seer homem vyvo e deestro pera iso, meteo se logo no esquife a somdar ho porto dentro; e tomou em huuma almaadia dous daqueles homeens da terra mancebos, e de boos corpos: e huum deles trazia huum arco, e seis ou sete seetas: e na praya amdavam muytos com seus arcos e seetas, e nom lhe aproveitaram. Troveos logo, ja denoute, aho Capitam, omde foram recebudos com muyto prazer e festa.

Afonso Lopes, our pilot, was on one of the small ships by order of the Captain-major, because he was a quick and able man for such work. He got into the skiff at once to take soundings inside the harbor. In a canoe he took two of the men of the land, young and well built. One of them carried a bow and six or seven arrows. Many others were walking on the beach with their bows and arrows, but he got nothing from them. He brought the two at once, after dark, to the Captain, and there they were received with great pleasure and celebration.

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.