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
On the 16th (March) we saw land, and went towards it to the N.W., and
we saw that the land trended north, and that there were many shoals
near it, and we took another tack to the south, and we fell in with
another small island, and there we anchored: and this was the same
day, and this island is called Suluano, and the first one is named
Yunuguan; and here we saw some canoes, and we went to them, and they
fled; and this island is in 9⅔° N. latitude and in 189° longitude from
the meridian. To these first islands, from the archipelago of St.
Lazarus....
Ytem. From the Strait of All Saints and Cape Fermoso to these two
islands, there will be 106° 30′ longitude, which strait is with these
islands in a straight course W.N.W. and E.S.E., which brings you
straight to them. From here we went on our course.
Leaving these islands, we sailed W., and fell in with the island of
Gada, which is uninhabited, and there we provided ourselves with water
and wood. This island is very free from shoals.
From here we departed and sailed W., and fell in with a large island
called Seilani, which is inhabited, and contains gold; we coasted it,
and went to W.S.W., to a small inhabited island called Mazaba. The
people are very good, and there we placed a cross upon a mountain; and
from thence they showed us three islands in the W.S.W. direction, and
they say there is much gold there, and they showed us how they gather
it, and they found small pieces like beans and like lentils; and this
island is in 9⅓° N. latitude.
We departed from Mazaba and went N., making for the island of Seilani,
and afterwards coasted the said island to the N.W. as far as 10°,
and there we saw three islets; and we went to the W., a matter of 10
leagues, and then we fell in with two islets, and at night we stopped;
and on the morrow we went S.W. and ¼ S., a matter of 12 leagues, as
far as 10⅓°, and there we entered a channel between two islands, one
called Matan, and the other Subo; and Subo, with the isle of Mazaba and
Suluan, are E.W. ¼ N.W.S.E.; and between Subo and Seilani we saw a very
high land to the north, which is called Baibai, and they say that there
is in it much gold and provisions, and much extent of land, that the
end of it is not known.
From Mazaba and Seilani and Subo, by the course which we came, towards
the south part, take care; for there are many shoals, and they are very
bad; for this a canoe would not stop which met us in this course.
From the mouth of the channel of Subo and Matan we went west in
mid-channel, and met with the town of Subu, at which we anchored, and
made peace, and there they gave us rice and millet and flesh; and we
remained there many days; and the king and the queen, with many people,
became Christians of their free will.
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