He had a Christian Indian with him named Manuel, the servant of one Petro Alfonso de Lorosa, [479] a Portuguese who went from Bandan to Tarenate, after the death of Francesco Seranno.
Every year a number of junks sail from Malaca to Bandan [493] for mace and nutmeg, and from Bandan to Malucho for cloves.
Bandan lies in a latitude of six degrees toward the Antarctic Pole, and in a longitude of one hundred and sixty-three and one-half degrees from the line of demarcation.
It was a year all but one fortnight, since a large ship had arrived at that place from Malaca, and had left laden with cloves, but had been obliged to remain in Bandan for some months because of bad weather.
He said that we should not depart then for that was not the season for sailing among those islands, both because of the many shoals found about Bandan and because we might easily meet some Portuguese ships [in those seas].
Those people sail in three days in those junks of theirs from Maluco to Bandan, and in a fortnight from Bandan to Malaca.
Bandan consisted of a quadrangular walled village with five high towers and two more partly collapsed.
Soon after leaving Bandan we found ourselves in an open plain with gradually vanishing mountains to the south-west.
From here we stood to the east until the Bandan Islands, and we found near this, which gives name to the others, twenty islands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bandan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
