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
They refitted the ship, and took in the cargo in four months and
sixteen days: they sailed on the 6th of April of the year 1522, and
took their course for the mainland of the Antilles by the strait
through which they had come; and at first they navigated to the North,
until they came out from the islands of Ternate and Tymor;[113]
afterwards they navigated along the island of Betachina, ten or eleven
leagues to the North-east;[114] after that they steered about twenty
leagues to the North-east, and so arrived at an island, which is
named Doyz,[115] and is in three and a half degrees South latitude
at its South-eastern side: from this place they navigated three or
four leagues eastwards, and sighted two islands, one large and the
other small; the large one was named Porquenampello,[116] and passed
between it and Batechina, which lay on their starboard side. They
reached a cape, to which they gave the name Cape of Palms, because
they sighted it on the vigil of Palms. This cape is in two and a half
degrees: thence they steered to the South to make Quimar,[117] which
is land belonging to the King of Tydor, and the said King had ordered
that they should receive whatever there was in the country for their
money, and there they took pigs and goats, and fowls and cocoa-nuts and
_hava_:[118] they remained in this port eight or nine days. This port
of Camarfya[119] is in one and a quarter degree.
They sailed from this port on the 20th[120] of April, and steered
for about seventeen leagues,[121] and came out of the channel of
the island of Batechina and the island Charam;[122] and as soon as
they were outside, they saw that the said island of Charam[123] ran
to the South-east a good eighteen or twenty leagues, and it was not
their course, for their direction was to the East[124] and a quarter
North-east; and they navigated in the said course some days, and always
found the winds very contrary for their course. On the 3rd of May they
made two small islands, which might be in five degrees more or less,
to which they gave the name of islands of St. Antony.[125] Thence they
navigated further on to the North-east, and arrived at an island which
is named Cyco,[126] which is in fully nineteen degrees, and they made
this island on the 11th of July.[127] From this island they took a
man, whom they carried away with them, and they navigated further on,
tacking about with contrary winds, until they reached forty-two degrees
North latitude.
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