Simão de Miranda

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.