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
Seeing this, the other
ship at once surrendered. He ordered Cartagena to be quartered, having
him publicly cried as a traitor; and the body of Luis de Mendoça also
was quartered; and he ordered the quarters and the executed men to
be set on shore, spitted on poles. So the Castilians had great fear
of him, for he kept the mutineers prisoners in irons, and set to the
pumps, during three months that he remained in this river, in which he
careened and refitted his ships very well.”
“When he was about to set sail, he ordered the prisoners to be set at
liberty, and pardoned them, and he sent them to go along the shore,
following the bank of the river until they found the headland from
which they could see the sea on the other side; and whoever returned
to him with this news he would give him a hundred ducats as a reward
for good news. These men went for more than forty leagues, and returned
without news; and they brought back two men, fifteen spans high, from a
village which they found. He then sent Serrano, because his vessel was
the smallest, to go along the river to discover its extremity; and he
went with a strong current, which carried him without wind. And, going
along thus, his ship grounded on some rocks, on which it was lost, and
the boat returned laden with the crew. Magellan sent the boats thither,
and they saved everything, so that only the hull was lost. Then he
ordered two priests, who had taken part in the mutiny, to be set on
shore, and a brother of Cartagena, whom he pardoned at the petition of
Mesquita, and he left them thus banished.”
“Then he sailed from the river and ran along the coast until he reached
a river, to which they gave the name of Victoria, and which had high
land on either side. From this river Mesquita’s ship ran away, and it
was not known whether they had killed him, or if he had gone of his own
accord; but an astrologer and diviner told him that the captain was a
prisoner, and that they were returning to Castile, but that the emperor
would do them an injury.”
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