Category: Travel Writing
+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.+,...
+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.+...
2. Part 2“Several great lords of Castile, irritated against their king, whose avarice they could not endure, had passed into the kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon, after having renounced th...
3. Part 3Here follows an abstract of documents, copies of which are contained in the Torre do Tombo, relating to the appointment of Magellan, and the privileges and powers conferred upon...
4. Part 4After begging his pardon, if he should receive from me any offence in the conversation, I called to his recollection how often I had spoken to him, and how well he had always an...
5. Part 5That Pigafetta did compose a work in Italian appears from a document in the archives of Venice, containing a petition of Pigafetta to the Doge and Council of Venice, dated Augus...
6. Part 6Fernando de Magalhāes seeing that the skiff was lost, set sail, as it was already night, tacking about until the next day; as soon as it was morning they anchored at the place w...
7. Part 7While they were thus waiting for the cargo, it seemed to them, from the delay in the delivery, that the King was preparing some treachery against them, and the greater part of t...
8. Part 8Tuesday, the 20th September of the said year,[149] we set sail from St. Lucar, making the course of the south-west otherwise named Labeiche;[150] and on the twenty-sixth of the...
9. Part 9Fifteen days later we saw four other giants, who carried no arrows, for they had hid them in the bushes, as two of them showed us, for we took them all four, and each of them wa...
10. Part 10Wednesday, the twenty-eighth of November, 1520, we came forth out of the said strait, and entered into the Pacific sea, where we remained three months and twenty days without ta...
11. Part 11I ate flesh on Good Friday, not being able to do otherwise, and before the hour of supper, I gave several things to the king, which I had brought. There I wrote down several thi...
12. Part 12Wednesday morning, because the night before one of our men had died, the interpreter and I, by order of the captain, went to ask the king for a place where we might bury the dec...
13. Part 13The Christian king could indeed have given us aid, and would have done so; but our captain far from forseeing that which happened, when he landed with his men, had charged him n...
14. Part 14And, with respect to that, it is well to know and understand that in that same port where we were, beyond the city of the Moors of which I have spoken, there is another inhabite...
15. Part 15These kings have as many ladies as they please, but one only is the principal wife, and all the others are subject to her. The King of Tadore had a large house outside the city,...
16. Part 16The king had informed us that the King of Bachian would soon arrive, with a brother of his who was going to marry one of his daughters, and had asked us to do him honour by firi...
17. Part 17They also related to us that beyond Java Major, towards the north in the Gulf of China, which the ancients named Sinus Magnus, there is an enormous tree named Campanganghi,[405]...
18. Part 18“III. The compass can also supply a method, still easier, for finding the longitude of the place in which you are. It is known that the compass, or the magnetised needle which i...
19. Part 19It is no wonder that these islands should be unknown to any human beings almost up to our time. For whatever we read concerning the native soil of the spices has been told us by...
20. Part 20But one night a great number of fires were seen, mostly on their left hand, from which they guessed that they had been seen by the natives of the region. But Magellan, seeing th...
21. Part 21Muthil, the fourth island, is not larger than the rest, and it produces cinnamon. The tree is full of shoots, and in other respects barren; it delights in dryness, and is very l...
22. Part 22On the 3rd, we went N.W., and found ourselves in 46° 30′. „ 4th, to N.W., „ 45½ „ 5th, to N. ¼ N.W. „ 44¼ „ 6th, to N.E. ¼ E. „ 44 „ 7th, to N.E. ¼ E. „ 43⅔ „ 8th, to N.E. ¼ N....
23. Part 23[After this the course was W.S.W. for several days, and there is nothing worthy of note till Tuesday, the 18th of March, when the Victoria discovered Amsterdam Island.]
24. Part 24“He sailed from the Canaries of Tanarife, and made the Cape Verde, whence he crossed over to the coast of Brazil, and there entered a river which is named Janeiro. There went, a...
25. Part 25E juntos mandarā chamar frnā de magalhaēes e q̃seram dele sabr̃ a ordem desta armada e a causa por que na qʳta nāao n̄o ya capitā somᵗᵉ carvalho que era piloto e nō capitam, dis...
26. Part 26[15] This contemporary document confirms Osorio as to the cause of Magellan’s being disgusted with the King of Portugal; some historians have represented the quarrel as arising...
27. Part 27*–*: This passage is from MS. No. 68, the Regent Louisa’s copy, for whom it appears to have been adapted; that in No. 5650, and in Amoretti and Fabre’s editions, is less fit for...
28. Part 28[441] Literally, with funereal or lugubrious state; but Maximilian and his translators appear to have thought that _feralis_ is derived from _fera_. Ramusion translates: “Dando...