The first voyage round the world, by Magellan : $b translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers

WORKS ISSUED BY
                          The Hakluyt Society.

                     FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD,
                              BY MAGELLAN.

                                No. LII.


                            [Illustration:
                          FERDIN·MAGALLANUS·
                      SUPERATIS·ANTARCTICI·FRETI·
                        ANGUSTIIS·CLARISSIMUS·]




                               THE FIRST
                        VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD,
                                   BY
                               MAGELLAN.

                    TRANSLATED FROM THE ACCOUNTS OF
                               PIGAFETTA,
                    AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.

   Accompanied by Original Documents, with Notes and an Introduction,
                                   BY
                       LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY.

                                LONDON:
                    PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

                             M.DCCC.LXXIV.




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                                COUNCIL
                                  OF
                         THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.


  +The Right Hon. Sir+ DAVID DUNDAS, +President+.
  +Rear-Admiral+ C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B.         }
  +Major-General Sir+ HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B., F.R.S.,  } +Vice-Presidents+.
      +Pres.+R.G.S.                                     }
  W. A. TYSSEN AMHURST, +Esq.+
  +Rev. Dr.+ GEORGE P. BADGER, D.C.L., F.R.S.
  J. BARROW, +Esq.+, F.R.S.
  +Vice-Admiral+ R. COLLINSON, C.B.
  +Captain+ COLOMB, R.N.
  W. E. FRERE, +Esq.+
  EGERTON V. HARCOURT, +Esq.+
  JOHN WINTER JONES, +Esq.+, F.S.A.
  R. H. MAJOR, +Esq.+, F.S.A.
  +Sir+ CHARLES NICHOLSON, +Bart.+, D.C.L.
  +Sir+ W. STIRLING MAXWELL, +Bart.+
  +Vice-Admiral+ ERASMUS OMMANNEY, C.B., F.R.S.
  +Rear-Admiral+ SHERARD OSBORN, C.B.
  +The Lord+ STANLEY +of Alderley+.
  EDWARD THOMAS, +Esq.+, F.R.S.
  +The Hon.+ FREDERICK WALPOLE, M.P.


       CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, +Esq.+, C.B., F.R.S., +Sec.+R.G.S.,
                         +Honorary Secretary+.




                               CONTENTS.


                                                                    PAGE

  +Introduction+                                                    i–lx

  +The Genoese Pilot’s Account of Magellan’s Voyage+                1–29

  +Narrative of the Anonymous Portuguese+                          30–32

  +Pigafetta’s Account of Magellan’s Voyage+                      35–163

  +Pigafetta’s Treatise of Navigation+                           164–174

  +Names of the First Circumnavigators+                          175–176

  +Magellan’s Order of the Day in the Straits+                   177–178

  +Letter of Maximilian, the Transylvan+                         179–210

  +Log-Book of Francisco Albo or Alvaro+                         211–236

  +Account of the “Trinity” and her Crew+                        237–242

  +Account of the Mutiny in Port St. Julian, and
      Gaspar Correa’s Account of the Voyage+                     243–256

  +Cost of Magellan’s Fleet+                                         257

  +Appendix+                                                       i–xiv

  +Index+                                                        xvii–xx




                           PLATES AND MAPS.


  +Portrait of Magellan+                                 _to face Title_

  +Arms of Magellan+                                                   1

  +Facsimiles of Signatures+                                           1

  +Pigafetta’s Map of the Straits+                                    65

  +Track of the “Victoria” in the Pacific+                           177

  +Islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul+                                235




                             INTRODUCTION
                                  AND
                           LIFE OF MAGELLAN.

                ——Teucer Salamina patremque
      Quum fugeret, tamen uda Lyæo
    Tempora populeâ fertur vinxisse coronâ,
      Sic tristes affatus amicos:
    Quo nos cunque feret melior Fortuna parente,
      Ibimus, o socii comitesque!
    Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro;
      Certus enim promisit Apollo
    Ambiguam tellure novâ Salamina futuram.
      O fortes, pejoraque passi
    Mecum sæpe viri, nunc vino pellite curas:
      Cras ingens iterabimus æquor.


Though Magellan’s enterprise was the greatest ever undertaken by
any navigator, yet he has been deprived of his due fame by the
jealousy which has always existed between the two nations inhabiting
the Peninsula: the Spaniards would not brook being commanded by a
Portuguese, and the Portuguese have not yet forgiven Magellan for
having abandoned them to serve Castile. But Magellan really had no
choice; for if the western passage which he expected to discover was
to be sought for, it could only be under the auspices of Spain, within
whose demarcation those waters lay.

It would seem that D.