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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
- THE GENOESE PILOT'S ACCOUNT OF MAGELLAN'S VOYAGE
- NARRATIVE OF THE ANONYMOUS PORTUGUESE
- PIGAFETTA'S ACCOUNT OF MAGELLAN'S VOYAGE
- PIGAFETTA'S TREATISE OF NAVIGATION
- NAMES OF THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATORS
- MAGELLAN'S ORDER OF THE DAY IN THE STRAITS
- LETTER OF MAXIMILIAN, THE TRANSYLVAN
- LOG-BOOK OF FRANCISCO ALVO OR ALVARO
- ACCOUNT OF THE “TRINITY” AND HER CREW
- ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY IN PORT ST. JULIAN, AND GASPAR CORREA'S ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE
- COST OF MAGELLAN'S FLEET
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
NARRATIVE OF THE ANONYMOUS PORTUGUESE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
- THE GENOESE PILOT'S ACCOUNT OF MAGELLAN'S VOYAGE
- NARRATIVE OF THE ANONYMOUS PORTUGUESE
- PIGAFETTA'S ACCOUNT OF MAGELLAN'S VOYAGE
- PIGAFETTA'S TREATISE OF NAVIGATION
- NAMES OF THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATORS
- MAGELLAN'S ORDER OF THE DAY IN THE STRAITS
- LETTER OF MAXIMILIAN, THE TRANSYLVAN
- LOG-BOOK OF FRANCISCO ALVO OR ALVARO
- ACCOUNT OF THE “TRINITY” AND HER CREW
- ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY IN PORT ST. JULIAN, AND GASPAR CORREA'S ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE
- COST OF MAGELLAN'S FLEET
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
In the name of God and of good salvation. We departed from Seville with five, ships on the tenth of August, in the year 1519, to go and discover the Molucca Islands. We commenced our voyage from San Lucar for the Canary Islands, and sailed south-west 960 miles, where we found ourselves at the island of Tenerife, in which is the harbour of Santa Cruz in twenty-eight degrees of north latitude. And from the island of Tenerife we sailed southwards 1680 miles, when we found ourselves in four degrees of north latitude. From these four degrees of north latitude we sailed south-west, until we found ourselves at the Cape of Saint Augustin, which is in eight degrees of south latitude, having accomplished 1200 miles. And from Cape Saint Augustin we sailed south and by south-west 864 miles, where we found ourselves in twenty degrees of south latitude. From twenty degrees of south latitude, being at sea, we sailed 1500 miles south-west, when we found ourselves near the river, whose mouth is 108 miles wide, and lies in thirty-five degrees of the said south latitude. We named it the river of Saint Christopher. From this river we sailed 1638 miles south-west by west, where we found ourselves at the point of the Lupi Marini, which is in fortyeight degrees of south latitude. And from the point of the Lupi Marini we sailed south-west 350 miles, where we found ourselves in the harbour of Saint Julian, and stayed there five months waiting for the sun to return towards us, because in June and July it appeared for only four hours each day.
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- First Voyage Round the World by MagellanTranslated from the Accounts of Pigafetta and Other Contemporary Writers, pp. 30 - 32Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1874