. . . . . . "o their boats where they had their merchandise, which consisted of cloves, cinnamon, pepper, nutmegs, mace, gold and other things; and they made us page 19understand by gestures that such articles were to be found in the islands to which we were going.??? [6] Further on he speaks of the vessels and utensils of solid gold that he found in Butuan, where the people worked mines." .