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 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, 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…