They informed us of more than forty islands, great and small, all peopled, naming them, and telling us they were at war with many of them.

They also gave us intelligence of Santa Cruz Island, and of what happened when Mendana was there.
The people of this island are of ordinary stature.

They have amongst them people white and red, some in color like those of the Indies, others woolly-headed, blacks and mulattoes.

Slavery is in use amongst them.
Their food is yams, fish, cocoanuts, and they have pigs and fowls.

The name of the chief is Tomai.
QUEIROZ AND TORRES LEAVE TAUMACO FOR THE SOUTH.
We departed from Taumaco with four natives of the place, whom we took, at which they were not much pleased; and as we here got wood and water, there was no necessity for us to go to Santa Cruz Island; which is, in this parallel* sixty leagues further on.
[* It is not exactly in the same parallel.] So we sailed from hence, steering S.S.E.to 12 deg.