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
“He sailed from the Canaries of Tanarife, and made the Cape Verde,
whence he crossed over to the coast of Brazil, and there entered a
river which is named Janeiro. There went, as chief pilot, a Portuguese
named Joan Lopes Carvalhinho, who had already been in this river, and
took with him a son whom he had gotten there of a woman of the country.
From this place they went on sailing until they reached the Cape of
Santa Maria, which Joan of Lisbon had discovered in the year 1514;
thence they went to the river San Julian. While they were there taking
in water and wood, Juan de Cartagena, who was sub-captain-major, agreed
with the other captains to rise up, saying that Magellan had got them
betrayed and entrapped. As they understood that Gaspar de Quesada was
a friend of Magellan’s, Juan de Cartagena got into his boat at night,
with twenty men, and went to the ship of Gaspar Quesada, and went in to
speak to him, and took him prisoner,[455] and made a relation of his
captain of the ship, in order that all three might go at once to board
Magellan and kill him, and after that they would reduce the other ship
of Joan Serrano, and would take the money and goods, which they would
hide, and would return to the emperor, and would tell him that Magellan
had got them entrapped and deceived, having broken faith with his
instructions, since he was navigating in seas and countries of the King
of Portugal: for which deed they would get first a safe conduct from
the emperor. So they arranged matters for their treason, which turned
out ill for them.”
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