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
[66] Paris MS.: “And burned a village of those who would not yield the
said obedience.” The narrative of Pigafetta states: “He burned
twenty or thirty houses of the village.” _Lisbon Ac. note._
[67] Pigafetta says: “We were 60 armed men, 48 went on shore with
Magellan; the 11 remained to guard the boats.” _Lisbon Ac. note._
[68] Paris MS.: “And went against the said place, and it was on the
27th day of April.” Pigafetta also places this event on the 27th
of April, and observes that it was on _Saturday_, which in truth
took place that year on the 27th, and not on the 28th of April.
_Lisbon Ac. note._
[69] Pigafetta says: “With eight of our men there perished four
Indians of those who had become Christians, and we had many
wounded, I being one of them; of the enemy there fell only
fifteen men.” _Lisbon Ac. note._
[70] Pigafetta says: “We then chose instead of the captain, Duarte
Barbosa, a Portuguese, his relation, and John Serrano, a
Spaniard. The first commanded the flagship.”
[71] Paris MS.: “They killed the two captains, and also 26 men with
them.” It was on this occasion that Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese,
and brother-in-law of Magellan, was killed. He was one of the
captains here mentioned. Some of our writers have said, or
conjectured, that Duarte Barbosa was killed by poison; but this
is a mistake. The barbarians, indeed, drew the Castilians ashore
under the pretext of giving them a banquet, but it does not
follow from that that they poisoned them. The Transylvan says:
_inter epulandum, ab iis, qui in insidiis collocati fuerant,
opprimuntur. Fit clamor undique: nuntiatur protinus in navibus
nostros occisos._ See Barros, 3, 5, 10. The other captain, who
was John Serrano, was not killed, but remained alive in the
hands of the barbarians at the time the boats made off, because,
notwithstanding the most mournful supplications which he made
from the shore for rescue, Joan Lopes de Carvalho feared further
treachery, and ordered the anchor to be weighed. _Lisbon Ac.
note._
[72] Paris MS.: “One Yoam Lopez de Carvalho.” _Lisbon Ac. note._
[73] Paris MS.: “Gonzalo Gomez Despinosa.” _Lisbon Ac. note._
[74] Barros says 180 men, and this seems more probable, considering
the number of the men who sailed in the fleet and of those who
might then have been lost, and those who were lost later, and
also of those who at last reached Ternate and Europe. _Lisbon Ac.
note._ The Madrid MS. has 180 men, written in full, “Semte he
oytēta homēs.”
[75] Pigafetta says they burned the ship _Conception_.
[76] Paris MS., “Quype.” _Lisbon Ac. note._
[77] Paris MS. has “two islets.” _Lisbon Ac. note._
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