The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 315 pages of information about The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 315 pages of information about The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55.
condicion de se entregar ala gente dela trra levantose vn piloto portugues q yva con magallaes y tomo el leme en la mano y partio camjno de maluco alqual llego y hallo vn hombre de don tristan de meneses q dios aya, vujeronle ala mano y supieron todo lo q qujsieron del fizieron sus contratos bien largamete y a voluntad delos dela trra despendieron desus bonetes bermejos y panos q lebavan por los quales les fiziero carga destas dos naos, las quales partiero de maluco cargadas de clavo y mal aparejadas de aparejos y costados dexaron en trra dos o tres honbres con barcos y talaqras y vnos tiros fechos por senal, estas naos trayan hecho fundamento de se venjr por las islas de maldiva porq por el camino q fuero tenjante por peligroso po el tpo los hizo arribar a burneo de donde se partio vna nao la mejor aderecada pa essos rreynos la qual dios alla nos lieve, la otra con sesenta personas se tornava pa maluco por no estar pa acometer el camjno y fazer mucha agua, y fazia fundamento de hazer estancias en maluco con su artilleria y esperar allj rrespuesta dela nao q partio pa castilla le q_l_ plazera a nro s_or_ q no yra alla su el lo vujere por su servicio. todas estas nuevas supiero por dos grumetes delas mismas naos q se qdaro en burneo por a[symbol] mjedo de yr las naos tan mal aderecadas, y de allj los levo don jua* a timor adonde estava pedro merino—­cargando de soldados (?) y de allj se partio con estos dos grumetes y los truxo a malaca a donde hallo a ynigo lopez q estana pa partir y se metio con el y llegaro a cochin a salvamento con los castellanos grumetes de gujen se supo todo esto.

[Addressed: “S.  Cel. & Cath._ca_ M._ti_”]

[Endorsed: “A su mag xxjx de agosto de cochin a 23 de Dics de 1522.

Avises del viage [sic] de Magallanes y su muerte y noticias dela India portuguesa.”]

Extract of a Letter from the Indies

After I had written the above to your lordship, Ynigo Lopez arrived on the eighteenth from Malaca with the news that the Castilians were in Maluco; that three vessels had left Castilla under command of Fernando Magallaes.  They had been sighted off the cape of San Agustin, from which point they had run about two hundred or three hundred leagues along the coast of Brasil.  There they anchored in a river [218] which flows across the whole of Brasil, and was of fresh water.  They sailed for six or seven days on this river until they came to the other part of the south, whence they started in quest of Maluco, sailing for five months in a wide expanse of waters without ever seeing land or finding islands, and with a steady stern wind.  In this region one of the ships fled from Magallanes and started to return, but nothing more has been heard of it At this time a great uneasiness became manifest among the Castilians, and it was rumored that Magallanes was going to deliver them over to the Portuguese; and they resolved to mutiny

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