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 making the aforesaid course the wind shifted to north-east,
and they stood out to sea, and they saw a sail coming, and the ships
anchored, and the boats went to it and took it; it was a small junk and
carried nothing but cocoa-nuts; and they took in water and wood, and
set sail along the coast of the island to the north-east, until they
reached the extremity of the said island, and met with another small
island, where they overhauled the ships. They arrived at this island on
the day of our Lady of August, and in it they found a very good point
for beaching the ships, and they gave it the name of Port St. Mary of
August, and it is in fully seven degrees.
As soon as they had taken these precautions they set sail and steered
to the south-west until they sighted the island which is named
Fagajam,[92] and this is a course of thirty-eight to forty leagues: and
as soon as they sighted this island they steered to the south-west,
and again made an island which is called Seloque,[93] and they had
information that there were many pearls there: and when they had
already sighted that island the wind shifted to a head-wind, and they
could not fetch it by the course they were sailing, and it seemed to
them that it might be in six degrees. This same night they arrived at
the island of Quipe, and ran along it to the south-east, and passed
between it and another island called Tamgym,[94] and always running
along the coast of the said island, and going thus, they fell in with
a parao laden with sago in loaves, which is bread made of a tree which
is named cajare,[95] which the people of that country eat as bread.
This parao carried twenty-one men, and the chief of them had been in
Maluco in the house of Francisco Serram, and having gone further along
this island they arrived in sight of some islands which are named
Semrryn;[96] they are in five degrees, a little more or less. The
inhabitants of this land came to see the ships, and so they had speech
of one another, and an old man of these people told them that he would
conduct them to Maluco.
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