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
Whilst thus at anchor they established peace,
and settled that they should trade in what there was in the country,
especially wax, to which they answered that they would willingly sell
all that there was in the country for their money. This port of Borneo
is in eight degrees.
For the answer thus received from the King they sent him a present by
Gonzalo Mendes Despinosa,[88] captain of the ship Victoria, and the
King accepted the present, and gave to all of them China stuffs: and
when there had passed twenty or twenty-three days that they were there
trading with the people of the island, and had got five men on shore in
the city itself, there came to anchor at the bar, close to them, five
junks, at the hour of vespers, and they remained there that evening
and the night until next day in the morning, when they saw coming from
the city two hundred paraos, some under sail, others rowing. Seeing in
this manner the five junks and the paraos, it seemed to them that there
might be treachery, and they set sail for the junks, and as soon as the
crews of the junks saw them under sail, they also set sail and made off
where the wind best served them; and they overhauled one of the junks
with the boats, and took it with twenty-seven men;[89] and the ships
went and anchored abreast of the island of the Myrololans, with the
junk made fast to the poop of the flagship, and the paraos returned
to shore, and when night came there came on a squall from the west in
which the said junk went to the bottom alongside the flagship, without
being able to receive any assistance from it.[90]
Next day in the morning they saw a sail, and went to it and took it;
this was a great junk in which the son of the King of Lucam came as
captain, and had with him ninety men, and as soon as they took them
they sent some of them to the King of Borneo; and they sent him word
by these men to send the Christians whom they had got there, who were
seven men, and they would give him all the people whom they had taken
in the junk; on which account the King sent two men of the seven whom
he had got there in a parao, and they again sent him word to send the
five men who still remained, and they would send all the people whom
they had got from the junk. They waited two days for the answer, and
there came no message; then they took thirty men from the junk, and
put them into a parao belonging to the junk, and sent them to the King
of Borneo, and set sail with fourteen men of those they had taken and
three women; and they steered along the coast of the said island to
the north-east, returning backwards; and they again passed between the
islands and the great island of Borneo, where the flagship grounded on
a point of the island, and so remained more than four hours, and the
tide turned and it got off, by which it was seen clearly that the tide
was of twenty-four hours.[91]
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