Their ships alone are to be found in these seas, and were we to join the King of Ternate in an attack upon them, whether successful or not, we could never hope to be received in Portuguese ships; and should probably, indeed, be taken to Goa, and perhaps burned there as heretics, if we were to seek an asylum on board.
"What do you think ?" Viewed in this light, it certainly appeared more prudent to go to Tidore, and after some little discussion the boat's head was turned more to the west, and the lads continued their weary work in paddling the water-logged canoe.

So slowly did she move that it was late at night before they approached the island.

They determined not to land till morning, as they might be mistaken for natives, and attacked.

They therefore lay down in the canoe and went to sleep, when within about a mile of the island; and the next morning paddled along its shore until they saw some canoes hauled up, together with an English boat, and supposed that they were at the principal landing place of the island.
On either side of the landing place the cliffs rose steeply up, at a short distance from the beach.

But at this point a sort of natural gap existed, up which the road ascended into the interior of the island.