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
“The other ship followed its course, so that la Rosa made the Cape of
Good Hope, and while she was going near the land Pero Coresma, who was
going to India in a small ship, met her, and spoke her; and he was told
she belonged to the emperor, and came from Maluco, and it did not come
into his understanding to send her to the bottom, that she might not
return to Castile, and the ship entered the watering place of Saldanha,
and thence fetched Cape Verde, where they went ashore to get wood and
water; there some Portuguese, learning that the ship came from Maluco,
took the boat when it came ashore, with twenty Castilians; and as
there was no ship in the port they got into a boat to go and capture
the ship; but the ship seeing the boat come with armed men, for the
arms glittered, weighed and set sail for Cape St. Vincent, and thence
entered San Lucar with thirteen men, for now there were no more, and it
arrived in the year 1521. From Cape Verde they wrote to the king about
the Castilians, who remained there; the king ordered that they should
let them go till they died, but never to allow them to embark for any
port; and so it was done.”
COST OF MAGELLAN’S FLEET.
_From Navarrete_, Document No. XVII.
The _Conception_ was of ninety tons.
„ _Victoria_ „ eighty-five tons.
„ _S. Antonio_ „ a hundred and twenty tons.
„ _Trinity_ „ a hundred and ten tons.
„ _Santiago_ „ seventy-five tons.
+Summary+:
_Maravedis._
Five ships, with rigging, artillery, and arms, cost 3,912,241
Five ships, of 445 tons, five more or less, which
makes each ton come to a cost of 8,791½
_maravedis_.
Various necessaries 415,060
Provisions, biscuit, wine, oil, fish, meat, cheese,
vegetables, and barrels 1,585,551
Four months pay for 237 persons 1,154,504
Merchandise 1,679,769
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Total 8,751,125
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THE END.
APPENDIX No. I.
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Senhor.
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