The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55: 1521-1569; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55: 1521-1569; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
Relation of the expedition by Estevan Rodriguez, chief pilot of
the fleet. This relation seems to have been the log kept by this
pilot. Many of its entries are simply reckonings. He gives the
names, tonnage, captains, and pilots of the different vessels. On
the nineteenth of November the banner and standard were consecrated,
and the oath taken. The fleet set sail four hours before dawn on
November 21, [62] On Sunday, the twenty-sixth, the course was changed
in accordance with the sealed instructions given to Legazpi. The
"San Lucas" separated from the fleet December 1. On the eighth,
Diego Martin, pilot of the "San Pablo," reported land but he was in
error. Next day an island was sighted, in which there were "about
one hundred Indians, a people well built and with long beards," for
which the island was called Barbudos. "The women have pleasant faces,
and these people are as dark complexioned as mulattoes. The women have
little gardens. They have certain roots from which they make excellent
bread, for I have tried it." [63] On the tenth they passed and named
the islands Placeres and San Pablo. Other islands were passed on the
twelfth and fifteenth. On the twenty-second they sighted a mountainous
island to the south, whose inhabitants saluted them as "chamurre,
chamurre," [64] or that is, "friends, friends!" This was the island
of Guam. They found it to have a good bay and good rivers of fresh
water. The products of this island are named, the people described,
and the troubles there briefly enumerated. "The master-of-camp and
Martin de Gueyte, with one hundred and fifty men, sacked and burned
two villages." During the eleven days spent here "masses were said
each day." Numerous words of the language spoken are recorded:
Friend, _chamor_; good, _mauri_; hereabout, _baquimaqui_; pleasant
to the taste, _mani_; take, _jo_; oil, _rana_; rice, _juay_; land,
_tana_; dry cocoa, _micha_; señor, _churu_; fresh cocoa, _mana_; iron,
_yrizo_; botija [a species of jar], _o_; gourd, _coca_; ship, _botus_;
nail, _yuro_; salt, _azibi_; sugar-cane, _tupotipor_; fish, _bian_;
no, _eri_; salt fish, _azuiban_; yam, _nica_; small, _segu_; wood,
_tagayaya_; green banana, _regue_; water, _ami_; tamal, _enft_; banana,
_jeta_; acorn, _puga_; net, _ragua_; pictured paper, _tricabo-tali;_
eyes, _macha_; rock, _rapia_; ears, _perucha_; paper, _afuipuri_;
teeth, _nifi_; palm-leaf mat, _guafal_; hair, _chuzo_; ginger,
_asinor_; hands, _catecha_; she, _reben_; foot, _ngmicha_; osier
basket, _pian_; beard, _mimi_; deep, _atripe_; leg, _achumpa_; crab,
_achulu_; this, _achi_; petaca [a leather covered trunk or chest],
_agu_; pitcher, _burgay_; come here, _hembean;_ star, _vitan;_ moon,
_uran_; sun, _afaon_; to eat, _mana_; large, _riso_. Their numbers
up to ten are: _acha, gua, tero, farfur, nimi, guanan, frintin, gua
[sic], ãgua, manete_. On the fourteenth of February, 1565, they
sighted the Philippines. Describing the natives, Rodriguez says:
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