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
that he and his people should escape by night, and for that should
give him much wealth of precious stones, and by night they got away by
swimming; and Carvalhinho pretended to have been asleep, and woke up
complaining of the watch. But the Castilians understood the deceit, and
took Carvalhinho and put him in irons, and took from him all he had,
and raised up as captain one Juan Bautista, master of the ship, because
he understood pilot’s work.[460]”
“Thence they sailed and went to Maluco, Ternate, and Tidore, where
they took to the kings the presents which Magellan had set apart for
them. They paid them great honour, and received them hospitably,
for they also gave to their ministers; and to the kings they gave
an embassage on the part of the emperor, relating to them his
magnificence, so that both soon obeyed him, and did homage as vassals
for ever; and they established trade and prices for buying and selling,
and established factories on shore, and began to collect cloves, and
very much was brought to them, because the Castilians gave what they
asked, for they had a superfluity of merchandise; thus they became
lords of the land. As the ships were much injured, they patched them
up a little, the best they could, and hastened to fill both ships with
cargo, which they did in one month. When they were about to sail there
came to the Castilians a Portuguese, named Juan de la Rosa, who had
come to Ternate, saying he was a pilot, and would take them to Castile,
upon which they agreed with him to give him fifty quintals of cloves in
each ship, because he said he would take them to the island of Banda,
which had more riches than Maluco. So the Castilians rejoiced greatly
at taking this man back to the emperor, for the greater certainty as
to their discovery. This Juan de la Rosa warned the Castilians that
they would come from India and seek for them, and kill them all, for
this was spoken of in India. To this the Castilians gave much credit,
and on that account did him great honour. They settled with the King
of Tidore to leave with him a factor with the merchandise, which they
had, because many ships would soon come, sent by the emperor; for which
reason they should have much cloves collected together. They then set
sail, making de la Rosa captain of the ship of Carvalhinho.”
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