The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the African shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.
La prima delle terribili disgrazie occorsemi in tal viaggio fu questa. Mentre la nostra nave prendea via verso le isole Canarie, o piuttosto tra queste isole e la spiaggia dell’Africa, fu sorpresa sul far del giorno da un pirata turco di Salé, che a tutte vele spiegate ne dava la caccia.