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
We sailed from Subu, and went S.W. till 9¾° between the head of Subu
and an island called Bohol; and on the W. side of the head of Subu
there is another, which is named Panilongo, and it belongs to black
men; and this island and Subu contain much gold and much ginger, and
it is in 9⅓°, and Subu in 10⅓°; and so we came out of the channel, and
came ten leagues to the S., and anchored off the island of Bohol, and
there of the three ships we made two, and burned the other, not having
crews enough; and this island is in 9½°.
We sailed from Bohol to Quipit to the S.W., and came to anchor at the
same anchorage to the right of a river; and in the offing to the N.W.
part there are two islets, which are in 8½°, and there we could not get
provisions, for there were none, but we made peace with them; and this
island of Quipit has much gold, ginger, and cinnamon, and so we decided
on going to seek provisions; and from this head of Quipit to the first
islands there will be a course of 112 leagues; it lies with them E.W. ¼
N.E. S.W., and this island lies due East and West.
From thence we sailed and went to W.S.W., and to S.W. and W., until we
fell in with an island in which there were very few people, and it was
named Cuagayan; and here we anchored on the N. side of it, and we asked
where the island of Poluan was, to get provisions of rice, for there is
much of it in that island, and they load many ships for other parts;
and so they showed us where it was, and so we went to the W.N.W., and
fell in with the head of the island of Poluan. Then we went to N. ¼
N.E., coasting along it until the town Saocao, and there we made peace,
and they were Moors; and we went to another town, which is of Cafres;
and there we bought much rice, and so we provisioned ourselves very
well; and this coast runs N.E. S.W., and the cape of the N.E. part is
in 9⅓°, and the part of S.W. is in 8⅓°; and so we returned to S.W. as
far as the head of this island, and there we found an island, and near
it there is a shoal, and in this course, and along Poluan, there are
many shoals, and this head lies E.W. with Quipit, and N.W. S.E. ¼ E.W.
with Cuagayan.
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