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
“When they were at sea they freed him from his irons, from the need
they felt for his navigation, and they went to the island of Banda,
where they restored to Carvalhinho his captaincy, and they went to
Banda, where they took samples of nutmeg and mace, as they had nowhere
to take in cargo of it. All having been consulted, they set sail to
make for the Cape of Good Hope, and navigate thence to Castile, for
they did not dare take any other course. Setting sail with this design,
they met with hard weather, with which the ship of Carvalhinho put into
port, and that of la Rosa continued her course. Carvalhinho put into
Maluco, where he discharged half the ship’s cargo, and heeled her over,
and repaired her as well as possible; this he did in twenty days, and
again set to taking in cargo and departing; but he fell ill with the
labour, and died on setting sail. They made Gonzalo Gomez d’Espinosa
captain of the ship again, and he, by the instructions of Carvalhinho,
took a course to search for the river (strait) through which they had
come; but when at sea, the ship again took in so much water, that they
ran before the wind to beach her on the first land they made, which
was in Batochina, where they beached the ship, and saved from her no
great quantity of goods. Whilst they were at this juncture D. Gracia
Anriques arrived at Maluco, with a ship to take in cloves, which came
from Malaca, and learning how these Castilians were there he sent to
call them under his safe conduct, that they should all come, because if
they did not he would hold them as enemies, and would go at once and
fetch them. The Castilians therefore, constrained by fortune, went to
where D. Gracia was, like as men who were lost, so that D. Gracia had
compassion upon them, and gave them a good reception, and supplied them
with necessaries, and having laden his ship, he embarked them all with
him, and they were more than thirty, and he took them to Malaca, where
Jorge d’Albuquerque was captain, who ordered the factor to give them
provisions for their maintenance, and in the monsoon to send them to
India, where D. Duarte [de Meneses] was governor. He commanded those
who chose to be written down in the rolls for pay, and he forbade
the ships of the kingdom to take them, that they might not return to
Castile; and in fact all died, only Gonzalo Gomes d’Espinosa passed to
Portugal in the year 1525, and he was made a prisoner in Lisbon, and
set at liberty by a letter which the empress sent to the king.”
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