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
nineteen degrees, and also another, which was in from thirteen to
fourteen degrees, and this in south latitude;[52] they are uninhabited.
They ran on until they reached the line, when Fernan de Magalhāes
said that now they were in the neighbourhood of Maluco, as he had
information that there were no provisions at Maluco, he said that he
would go in a northerly direction as far as ten or twelve degrees, and
they reached to as far as thirteen degrees north, and in this latitude
they navigated to the west, and a quarter south-west, a matter of a
hundred leagues, where on the 6th of March, 1521, they fetched two
islands inhabited by many people, and they anchored at one of them,
which is in twelve degrees north; and the inhabitants are people of
little truth, and they did not take precautions against them until they
saw that they were taking away the skiff of the flagship, and they cut
the rope with which it was made fast, and took it ashore without their
being able to prevent it. They gave this island the name of Thieves’
Island (_dos ladrōes_).[53]
Fernando de Magalhāes seeing that the skiff was lost, set sail, as
it was already night, tacking about until the next day; as soon as it
was morning they anchored at the place where they had seen the skiff
carried off to, and he ordered two boats to be got ready with a matter
of fifty or sixty men, and he went ashore in person, and burned the
whole village, and they killed seven or eight persons, between men and
women, and recovered the skiff, and returned to the ships; and while
they were there they saw forty or fifty paros[54] come, which came from
the same land, and brought much refreshments.[55]
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