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
From here we coasted the island of Quipit on the south side, and we
went to E. ¼ S.E. as far as some islets; and along the coast there are
many villages, and there is much good cinnamon in this island, and we
bought some of it; and there is much ginger on this coast; and so we
went to E.N.E., until we saw a gulf; then we went to S.E. until we saw
a large island, and thence to the cape at the east of the island of
Quipit, and at the cape of this island there is a very large village,
which collects much gold from a very large river, and this cape is
191½° of the meridian.
We sailed from Quipit to go to Maluco, and went to S.E., sighting an
island called Sibuco; after that we went to S.S.E., and saw another
island, called Virano Batolague; and we went by the same course as
far as the cape of this island, and after that we saw another, which
they call Candicar; and we went to the E. between the two, until we
went ahead of it; and there we entered a channel between Candicar and
another, which they call Sarangani; and at this island we anchored and
took a pilot for Maluco; and these two islands are in 4⅔°, and the cape
of Quipit in 7¼°, and the Cape of Sibuco, on the south side, is in 6°,
and the Cape of Virano Batologue in 5°, and from the Cape of Quipit and
Candicar the run is from N.N.W. to S.S.E., without touching any cape.
We sailed from Sarangani, and went S. ¼ S.E., until we came opposite
an island called Sanguin, and between the two are many islets, and they
are on the West side, and this island is in 3⅔°. From Sanguin we went
S. ¼ S.E. to an island called Sian; between them there are many islets,
and this island is in just 3°. From Sian we went to S ¼ S.W., as far
as an island called Paginsara, it is in 1⅙°; and from this island to
Sarangani the run is N.S ¼ N.E. S.W. in sight of all these islands.
From Paginsara we went to S. ¼ S.E., until we came between two islets,
which lie together, N.E. and S.W., and that one to the N.E. is named
Suar, and the other is named Atean, and one is in 1° 45′, and the other
in 1½°.
From Atean we went S.S.E. until we sighted the Molucos, and then
we went to East, and entered between Mare and Tidori, at which we
anchored, and there we were very well received, and made very good
arrangements for peace, and made a house on shore for trading with the
people, and so we remained many days, until we had taken in cargo.
The islands of the Malucos are these: Terrenate, Tidori, Mare, Motil,
Maquian, Bachian, and Gilolo, these are all those which contain cloves
and nutmeg; and there are also several others among them, the names of
which I will mention, and in what altitude they are, and the first is
Terrenate, which is on the side of the equinoctial line.
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