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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

Blair, Emma Helen, 1851-1911 [Editor]; Pigafetta, Antonio, 1480?-1534?; Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908 [Commentator]; Robertson, James Alexander, 1873-1939 [Translator]· 5 chapters· 99,303 words

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.”...

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1. Volume XXXIII, 1519–1522

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 Libra...

2. 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,...

3. dim. In the midst of them are two large and not very luminous stars,

which move only slightly. Those two stars are the Antarctic Pole. Our loadstone, although it moved hither and thither, always pointed toward its own Arctic Pole, although it did...

4. part i, p. ii. Also see Crawfurd’s Dictionary, pp. 238–249.

The terms India Major (Greater India) and India Minor (Lesser India) are differently applied by different authors. Schiltbergen applied the term Lesser India to the northern por...

5. part i (Manila, 1904), which says (p. 20) that the only large islands,

besides Luzón, inhabited at present by Negritos are Panay, Negros, Mindanao, and Paragua, although they do inhabit some of the smaller islands. The pure type is decreasing throu...