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
Having got these Moors, they steered along this island to the
south-west, and fell in with two islands at its extremity, and passed
between them; that on the north side is named Bolyna, and that on the
south Bamdym.[86] Sailing to the west south-west a matter of fourteen
leagues, they fell in with a white bottom, which was a shoal below
the water, and the black men they carried with them told them to draw
near to the coast of the island, as it was deeper there, and that
was more in the direction of Borneo, for from that neighbourhood the
island of Borneo could already be sighted. This same day they reached
and anchored at some islands, to which they gave the name of islets of
St. Paul, which was a matter of two and a half or three leagues from
the great island of Borneo, and they were in about seven degrees at
the south side of these islands. In the island of Borneo there is an
exceedingly great mountain, to which they gave the name of Mount St.
Paul; and from thence they navigated along the coast of Borneo to the
south-west, between an island and the island of Borneo itself; and
they went forward on the same course and reached the neighbourhood of
Borneo,[87] and the Moors whom they had with them told them that there
was Borneo, and the wind did not suffer them to arrive thither, as it
was contrary. They anchored at an island which is there, and which may
be eight leagues from Borneo.
Close to this island is another which has many myrobolans, and the
next day they set sail for the other island, which is nearer to the
port of Borneo; and going along thus they saw so many shoals that
they anchored, and sent the boats ashore in Borneo, and they took the
aforesaid Moorish pilots on shore, and there went a Christian with
them; and the boats went to set them on land, from whence they had to
go to the city of Borneo, which was three leagues off, and there they
were taken before the Shahbender of Borneo, and he asked what people
they were, and for what they came in the ships; and they were presented
to the King of Borneo with the Christian. As soon as the boats had set
the said men on shore, they sounded in order to see if the ships could
come in closer: and during this they saw three junks which were coming
from the port of Borneo from the said city out to sea, and as soon as
they saw the ships they returned inshore: continuing to sound, they
found the channel by which the port is entered; they then set sail, and
entered this channel, and being within the channel they anchored, and
would not go further in until they received a message from the shore,
which arrived next day with two paraos: these carried certain swivel
guns of metal, and a hundred men in each parao, and they brought goats
and fowls, and two cows, and figs, and other fruit, and told them to
enter further in opposite the islands which were near there, which
was the true berth; and from this position to the city there might be
three or four leagues.
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