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
Gonzalo Gomez complained of the violence done in taking that which
belonged to the emperor, and in his country. They replied that he had
done what the emperor, his lord, had commanded him; and they, what they
ought to do by the instructions from the king, their lord. They asked
him to give up the royal standard of Castile, and he answered that he
could not do so, neither could he defend it, since he was in their
power. Upon which they drew up some documents before a notary; and
when they discharged the cargo of the ship, he asked the Portuguese to
give him a certificate of what was in it, for him to render an account
to His Majesty; and they replied that, if he asked for this often,
they would give it him on a yard arm. In the fortress we found Juan
de Campos, Diego Arias, and Alonzo, the Genoese, sick, who were three
of those who had remained in Tidore with the goods of His Majesty.
They said that the Portuguese had knocked down the factory-house and
taken the cloves and receipts for cloves which were paid for, and all
the rigging and fittings of the ships; Luis del Molino had fled, and
Gonzalo Gomez called him to come to the fortress under safe conduct,
but when in it they put him in irons; Master Pedro had died.
When the ship was in Tidore, the pilot, Juan Lopez Carvalho, died on
the 14th February, 1522; and, between sailing thence and anchoring at
Benaconora, there died in August, September, and October, thirty-one
individuals, without counting three who ran away in the isle of Mao of
the Ladrones.
The twenty-one Castilians of the ship and factory remained about four
months as prisoners in Terrenate, until, at the end of February 1523,
Captain Antonio de Brito gave them a passage to India, sending them to
the island of Banda, which was a hundred leagues off, excepting the
carpenter Antonio, and the caulker Antonio Basazaval, whom he said
that he required. The clerk of the factory, Juan de Campos, and three
other Castilians, went in a junk, of which nothing was known nor what
became of those persons. The Castilians remained in Banda about four
months; from thence they were conducted to Java, and coasting it they
arrived at a city named Agrazue. Agrazue was a town of thirty thousand
inhabitants, Mussulmans, of great trade, to which porcelain, silks, and
other Chinese goods were brought from Borneo and other parts.
From Agrazue they went to Malacca, two hundred leagues distant, where
Jorge de Albuquerque was captain.
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