The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writersPigafetta, Antonio
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The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers
Pigafetta, Antonio
Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521; Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800
The boat, having returned for rice a second time to the shore, was
detained, with thirteen men[417] who were in it. As we saw that, and,
from the movement in certain caravels, suspected that they might wish
to capture us and our ship, we at once set sail. We afterwards learned,
some time after our return, that our boat and men had been arrested,
because one of our men had discovered the deception, and said that the
captain-general was dead, and that our ship was the only one remaining
of Magellan’s fleet.
At last, when it pleased Heaven, on Saturday the 6th of September
of the year 1522, we entered the bay of San Lucar; and of sixty men
who composed our crew when we left Maluco, we were reduced to only
eighteen,[417] and these for the most part sick. Of the others, some
died of hunger, some had run away at the island of Timor, and some had
been condemned to death for their crimes.
From the day when we left this bay of San Lucar until our return
thither, we reckoned that we had run more than fourteen thousand four
hundred and sixty leagues, and we had completed going round the earth
from East to West.
Monday the 8th of September, we cast anchor near the mole of Seville,
and discharged all the artillery.
Tuesday, we all went in shirts and barefoot, with a taper in our hands
to visit the shrine of St. Maria of Victory, and of St. Maria de
Antigua.
Then, leaving Seville, I went to Valladolid, where I presented to his
Sacred Majesty Don Carlos, neither gold nor silver, but things much
more precious in the eyes of so great a Sovereign. I presented to him
among other things, a book written by my hand of all the things that
had occurred day by day in our voyage. I departed thence as I was best
able, and went to Portugal, and related to King John the things which I
had seen. Returning through Spain, I came to France, where I presented
a few things from the other hemisphere to Madam the Regent, mother of
the most Christian King Don Francis.[418] Afterwards, I turned towards
Italy, where I established for ever my abode, and devoted my leisure
and vigils to the very illustrious and noble lord, Philip de Villiers
Lisleadam, the very worthy grand master of Rhodes.
The Chevalier,
+Anthoyne Pigaphete+.
TREATISE OF NAVIGATION
OF THE
CHEVALIER ANTONY PIGAFETTA.
The armillary sphere, of which the author gives a drawing, serves
to explain the system of the world according to Ptolemy, and could
also serve as an astrolabe, for one sees at the top of it a kind of
handle or ring, by which to hold it suspended, as is seen in the
above-mentioned drawing. He begins his treatise by giving us an idea of
that system, as have done all those after him, who have written of the
elements of the nautical art and of pilotage.
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