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
While they were thus waiting for the cargo, it seemed to them, from
the delay in the delivery, that the King was preparing some treachery
against them, and the greater part of the ships’ crews made an uproar
and told the captains to go, as the delays which the King made were
for nothing else than treachery: as it seemed to them all that it
might be so, they were abandoning everything, and were intending to
depart; and being about to unfurl the sails, the King, who had made
the agreement with them, came to the flagship and asked the captain
why he wanted to go, because that which he had agreed upon with him he
intended to fulfil it as had been settled. The captain replied that the
ships’ crews said they should go and not remain any longer, as it was
only treachery that was being prepared against them. To this the King
answered that it was not so, and on that account he at once sent for
his Koran, upon which he wished to make oath that nothing such should
be done to them. They at once brought him this Koran, and upon it he
made oath, and told them to rest at ease with that. At this the crews
were set at rest, and he promised them that he would give them their
cargo by the 15th December 1521, which he fulfilled within the said
time without being wanting in anything.
When the two ships were already laden and about to unfurl their sails,
the flagship[110] sprung a large leak, and the King of the country
learning this, he sent them twenty-five divers[111] to stop the leak,
which they were unable to do. They settled that the other ship should
depart, and that this one should again discharge all its cargo, and
unload it; and as they could not stop the leak, that they [the people
of the country] should give them all that they might be in need of.
This was done, and they discharged the cargo of the flagship; and when
the said ship was repaired, they took in her cargo, and decided on
making for the country of the Antilles, and the course from Maluco to
it was 2,000 leagues a little more or less. The other ship, which set
sail first, left on the 21st of December of the said year, and went out
to sea for Timor, and made its course behind Java, 2,055 leagues to the
Cape of Good Hope.[112]
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