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THE GENOESE PILOT'S ACCOUNT OF MAGELLAN'S VOYAGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2010

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He sailed from Seville on the 10th day of August of the said year, and remained at the bar until the 21st day of September, and as soon as he got outside, he steered to the southwest to make the island of Tenerife, and they reached the said island on the day of St. Michael, which was the 29th of September. Thence he made his course to fetch the Cape Verde islands, and they passed between the islands and the Cape without sighting either the one or the other. Having got as far as this neighbourhood, he shaped his course so as to make for Brazil, and as soon as they sighted the other coast of Brazil, he steered to the south-east along the coast as far as Cabo-frio, which is in twenty-three degrees south latitude; and from this cape he steered to the west, a matter of thirty leagues, to make the Rio de Janeiro, which is in the same latitude as Cabo-frio, and they entered the said Rio on the day of St. Lucy, which was the 13th December, in which place they took in wood, and they remained there until the first octave of Christmas, which was the 26th of December of the same year.

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First Voyage Round the World by Magellan
Translated from the Accounts of Pigafetta and Other Contemporary Writers
, pp. 1 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1874

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