SIMILARITIES
● The geographical features of the place
points to butuan.
● The name of the place in all primary
sources, including all diary of Antonio
Pigafetta, the chronicle of Magellan’s voyage.
● During the first circumnavigation not
the globe; Ferdinand Magellan's three
surviving vessels passed the Marianas, but
did not land, even though he was out of food
after crossing the Pacific Ocean.
● Some Filipino historians have long
challenged the notion that Mahaba island
Placer, was that the country’s identified site.
DIFFERENCES
● The original Italian manuscript of
pigafetta’s account is considered most
reliable for being “faithful” to the original
text.
● Magellan and his sailors saw a fire on an
island when sailing on southwestern tip of
panaon and headed towards it.
● Despite of Homonhon being
uninhabited at that time, he was detected
by the fishing boats of nearby local
settlements.
● like most of the towns of the country, it is
fraught with legends although most of them
have no basis in facts.