The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers — John Shaqi
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
He sailed from this river of St. Christopher on the 2nd of the said
month of February; they navigated along the said coast, and further on
to the south they discovered a point which is in the same river more
to the south, to which they gave the name of Point St. Antony; it is
in thirty-six degrees, hence they ran to the south-west, a matter of
twenty-five leagues, and made another cape which they named Cape St.
Apelonia, which is in thirty-six degrees; thence they navigated to the
west-south-west to some shoals,[31] which they named Shoals of the
Currents, which are in thirty-nine degrees; and thence they navigated
out to sea, and lost sight of land for a matter of two or three days,
when they again made for the land, and they came to a bay, which they
entered, and ran within it the whole day, thinking that there was an
outlet for Maluco, and when night came they found that it was quite
closed up, and in the same night they again stood out by the way which
they had come in. This bay is in thirty-four degrees;[32] they name
it the island[33] of St. Matthew. They navigated from this island of
St. Matthew along the coast until they reached another bay, where they
caught many sea-wolves and birds; to this they gave the name of “Bay of
Labours;”[34] it is in thirty-seven degrees; here they were near losing
the flag-ship in a storm. Thence they navigated along the said coast,
and arrived on the last day of March of the year 1520 at the Port of
St. Julian, which is in forty-nine and one-third degrees,[35] and here
they wintered, and found the day a little more or less than seven
hours.[36]
In this port three of the ships rose up against the Captain-major,
their captains saying that they intended to take him to Castile in
arrest, as he was taking them all to destruction. Here, through the
exertions of the said Captain-major, and the assistance and favour of
the foreigners whom he carried with him, the Captain-major went to the
said three ships which were already mentioned, and there the captain
of one of them was killed, who was treasurer of the whole fleet, and
named Luis de Mendoça; he was killed in his own ship[37] by stabs with
a dagger by the chief constable of the fleet, who was sent to do this
by Fernando de Magalhāes in a boat with certain men. The said three
ships having thus been recovered, five days later Fernando de Magalhāes
ordered Gaspar de Queixada to be decapitated and quartered; he was
captain of one of the ships,[38] and was one of those who had mutinied.
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