The Indians buy these people to cultivate their lands.

Beyond these Malucas Islands there are some to the southward, of little importance, as far as that of Ambueno, which is seventy leguas distant from them.

The Dutch have a fort there, which they took from the Portuguese, and a port where abundance of cloves are gathered--which, transplanted from the Malucas, have grown in this island alone and in no other.

Eighteen leguas farther east lies the island of Banda, where nutmeg is gathered; and the Dutch have another fortress there.
Westward from the Malucas Islands, about twenty leguas distant, is an island called Macasar.

It is more than two hundred and fifty leguas around, and is very fertile and rich, being inhabited by the best people in those islands; their king is friendly, very peaceful, and glad to trade with the Spaniards.