The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522: 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 close of the nineteenth centuryPigafetta, Antonio
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522: 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 close of the nineteenth century
Pigafetta, Antonio
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
[85] Eden adds (p. 251): “which ſum thynke to bee thoſe fyſſhes
that wee caule pikes.” Below, the sea-wolf is described as having a
head “of golden coloure.” They were probably some species of the
Otariidæ or fur-seals (Giullemard, p. 160, note). The “geese” were
penguins. Albo, Herrera, and others, also mention the “sea-wolves and
ducks.” Kohl (Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, xi, 362)
says that this bay where the ships were laden with the seals and
penguins is probably Desvelos Bay, but it is more probably Puerto
Deseado (“Port Desire;” see Mosto, p. 57, note 2). Drake also
secured fresh provisions from these “sea-wolves,” calling the bay
where he secured them “Seale Bay.” See World Encompassed (Hakluyt
Society edition), pp. 54, 55.
[86] Port St. Julian. The “Roteiro” pilot (Stanley, p. 3) says that
they reached it on March 31, 1520, and places it in 49° 20´ south
latitude. Albo (Navarrete, iv, p. 214) says: “We went to a port
called San Julian, where we entered the last day of March, and where we
stayed until the day of St. Bartholomew. The said port lies in a
latitude of 49 and two-thirds degrees. We pitched the ships in that
port.” Other writers give slightly different locations (see Mosto, p.
57, note 5). Antonio Brito, the Portuguese, whose MS. is preserved in
the Torre do Tombo at Lisbon, writes in 1523 to the king of Portugal
certain news obtained from some of the men of the “Trinidad.” His
information as might be expected, is at times faulty. Of Port St.
Julian, he says: “They coasted along shore until they reached a river
called San Juan where they wintered for four months.”
[87] MS. 5,650 adds: “jumping up and down.” The only reference made
to the Patagonians by Albo is as follows: “Many Indians came there,
who dress in certain skins of the anta, which resemble camels without
the hump. They have certain bows made from cane, which are very small
and resemble turkish bows. The arrows also resemble Turkish arrows, and
are tipped with flint instead of iron. Those Indians are very prudent,
swift runners, and very well-built and well-appearing men.”
(Navarrete, iv, pp. 214, 215). Cf. with Pigafetta’s account that
given by Maximilianus Transylvanus, in Vol. I, pp. 303–337.
[88] MS. 5,650 reads: “he began to marvel and to be afraid.”
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