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

The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898

   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,

                       Volume XXXIII, 1519–1522



 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
  with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
                                Bourne.


                      The Arthur H. Clark Company
                            Cleveland, Ohio
                                 MCMVI










CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXIII


    Preface                                                           11

    Primo viaggio intorno al mondo (to be concluded). Antonio
    Pigafetta. Italian text with English translation.
    MS. ca. 1525, of events of 1519–1522                              26

    Notes                                                            273

    Bibliographical Data                                             367






ILLUSTRATIONS


    Magalhães’s ship “Victoria;” photographic reproduction
    of cut facing p. 102 of Henry Stevens’s Johann Schoner
    (edited by C. H. Coote, London, 1888): from the copy in
    Lenox Library. (Probably the ideal conception of some
    early artist, and perhaps of the type of the “Victoria.”
    Its source is not mentioned in the above book.)         Frontispiece

    Pigafetta’s Chart of the Straits of Magellan                      86
    Pigafetta’s Charts of the Unfortunate Isles and the Ladrones      92
    Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Samar, etc.                  102
    Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Bohol, etc.                  112
    Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Cebú, Mactan, and Bohol      136
    Pigafetta’s Charts of the islands of Panglao and Cagayan Sulu    202
    Pigafetta’s Charts of the islands of Paragua and Borneo          210
    Pigafetta’s Charts of the islands of Mindanao and of Jolo, etc.  230
    Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Sarangani, etc.              238
    Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Sanguir, etc.                242
    Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Paghinzara, etc.             246
    Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Ternate, etc.                250
    Map showing discoveries of Magalhães; photographic facsimile
    from Mappamundo (Goa, 1571) of Fernão Vas Dourado, a MS.
    hydrographical atlas preserved in Archivo Nacional da Torre
    do Tombo, Lisbon                                            270, 271







PREFACE


In this and the succeeding volume, we present various documents
(notably the Relation of Antonio Pigafetta) which could not be obtained
in season for publication in regular chronological order, and which it
has seemed advisable to insert as addenda at this point.



With the present volume is begun the publication of Antonio
Pigafetta’s relation of the first circumnavigation of the world—the
greatest single achievement in all the history of sea exploration and
discovery. Written by a participant of the expedition, Pigafetta’s
relation has a greater value than any other narrative of the voyage.
Its great value and the fact that it has never been adequately
presented to the English-speaking public have induced the editors to
insert this relation in the present series both in the original Italian
(rigidly adhering to and preserving all the peculiarities of the
original manuscript) and in English translation. This relation is
especially valuable for its descriptions of the various peoples,
countries, and products, of Oriental seas, and for its vocabularies, as
well as for its account of the first circumnavigation. From its very
nature, the relation has called for an unusual amount of annotation,
which has been drawn freely from various sources: chiefly Mosto’s
annotations in his publication of Pigafetta’s relation in Part V,
volume iii, of the Raccolta di documenti e studi, published by the
Royal Columbian Commission of the fourth centenary of the discovery of
America under the auspices of the Minister of Public Instruction (Roma,
1894); Navarrete’s Col. de viages, iv (Madrid, 1837); various
publications of the Hakluyt Society; and F. H. H. Guillemard’s Life
of Ferdinand Magellan (New York, 1891). The publication of the original
Italian and the English, page for page, renders it necessary to place
the annotations at the end of the volume instead of in footnote as
hitherto. The various charts of the Italian manuscript are all
presented in facsimile in the course of the work. In order that the
various peculiarities of the manuscript might be preserved, it has been
necessary to specially design and cast certain characters that appear
in Pigafetta’s narrative.