Magellan's

Voyage Around the

Worlds

Travel Itinerary

Asian goods reached Europe either via the Silk Road or the
Arabian-Italian trade route. Both routes were expensive and
oftentimes disrupted by wars, natural calamities, and bandits. The
closing of the land route of the Spice Trade with the conquest by
the Ottoman Empire of Constantinople in 1453 forced European
kingdoms to look for ways to purchase spices directly from the
source. Batis, (pg. 19)

The Spanish monarch supported the plan of Ferdinand Magellan

to go to the East by sailing westward, a proposal that Portugal
refused to finance. The Magellan-Elcano expedition left the port
of Sanlucar de Barrameda in Seville on August 20, 1519. One of
its main objectives was to search for a new maritime path to the
Spice Islands that would not violate Spain's treaty with Portugal
Batis, (pg. 19-20)
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At dawn on Saturday, March sixteen, 1521,

we came upon a high land at a distance of
three hundred leagues from the island of
Latroni – an island named Zamal [ i.e.,
Samar]. Batis, (pg. 24)

On Monday afternoon, March 18, we saw a boat

coming toward us with nine men in it. When those
men reached the shore, their chief went
immediately to the captain-general... seeing that
they were reasonable men, ordered food to be set
before them, and gave them red caps, mirrors,
combs, bells, ivory, bocasine, and other things.
When they saw the captain's courtesy, they
presented fish, a jar of palm wine which they call
uraca [i.e., arrack], figs more than one palmo long
[i.e., bananas], and others which were smaller and
more delicate, and two cocoanuts [coconuts]. Cocoanuts are the fruit of the palm tree. Just as
Batis, (pg. 24) we have bread, wine, oil, and vinegar, so those
people get everything from that tree. That palm
bears a fruit, namely the cocoanut which is as
large as the head or thereabouts. Its outside husk
is green and thicker than two fingers. Under that
husk there is a hard shell, much thicker than the
shell of the walnut. Under that shell there is a
white marrowy substance one finger in thickness.
There is a clear, sweet water in the middle of the
marrowy substance which is very refreshing.
Batis, (pg. 25)
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At noon on Friday, March 22, those men came as they had

promised us in two boats with cocoanuts, sweet oranges,
a jar of palm-wine and a cock, in order to show us that
there were fowls in that district. Their seignior was an old
man who was painted [i.e., tattooed]. He wore two gold
earrings [schione] in his ears, and the others many gold
armlets on their arms and kerchiefs about [on] their
heads. Batis, (pg. 26)

There are people living near the island who have

holes [earrings] in their ears so large that they can
pass their arms through them. Those people are
caphri, that is to say, heathen. They go naked, with a
soft cloth woven from the bark of a tree about their
privies, except some of the chiefs who wear cotton
cloth embroidered with silk at the ends by means of a
needle. They are dark, fat, and painted. Batis, (pg. 27)

Next day, Holy Friday, the captain-general sent his slave, who acted as our interpreter,
ashore in a small boat to ask the king if he had any food to have it carried to the ships; and to
say that they would be well satisfied with us, for he [and his men] had come to the island as
friends and not as enemies. He embraced the captain-general to whom he gave three
porcelain jars covered with leaves and full of raw rice, two very large orade [dorado] and
other things. The captain-general gave the king a garment of red and yellow cloth made in
the Turkish fashion, and a fine red cap; and to the others (the king's men), to some knives
and to others mirrors Batis, (pg. 27)
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Early on [in] the morning of Sunday, the last of

March and Easter-day, the captain-general sent
the priest with some men to prepare the place
where the Mass was to be said; together with the
interpreter to tell the king that we were not going
to land in order to dine with him, but to say mass.
Batis, (pg. 28)

At noon on Sunday, April seven, we entered

the port of Zubu. The captain sent a foster-
son of his as ambassador to the king of
Zubo with the interpreter.to visit the king
because of the good report which he had
heard of him from the king of Mazaua, and
to buy food with his merchandise.
Batis, (pg. 32-33)

On Wednesday I told the king that we

would like to consecrate the place,
and to set up a cross there. He replied
that he was quite satisfied and that he
wished to adore the cross as did we.
Batis, (pg. 34)

On Sunday morning, April fourteen. The

captain led the king by hand to the platform
while speaking these good words in order to
baptize him. Five hundred men were baptized
before mass. Batis, (pg. 37)
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They landed on Cebu, they talked to Raja, they made him approve to became
catholic under the flag of spain but in reciprocal they need to compete lapu-
lapu. Magellan asked Lapu-Lapu to be part of the colonization, but Lapu-Lapu
refused. Magellan threatened lapu lapu to cause a war, the next day Magellan
brought 49 men to fight against men of Lapu-Lapu. They thought if they make
fire in their land, the native will be scared but the native showed that they are
not scared to them, they fought back and killed mens of Magellan.

Seeing that Magellan sent some men to burn

their houses in order to terrify them. when they
saw their house burning, they was roused to
greater fury.

Some of our men were killed nearby the

houses, while we burned twenty or thirty
houses. so many of them rained down
upon us that captain was shot through the
right leg with a poisoned arrow.

On that account, he ordered us to a frontal assault.

but the men took to flight, except to 10-15 of us who
remained with the captain.

The tattoo symbolizes in the Philippines that if you

have many tattoos you fought a lot of war.
"The mortar in the boats could not aid us as they were too far away" the
others were forced to run, and Magellan had a fatal wound that caused
the captain to fall face downward.

They rushed upon him with iron & bamboo spears and with their
cutlasses, until they killed our mirror, our light, our comfort, and our true
guide.

when they wounded him, he turned back many times to see

whether we were all on the boats. thereupon beholding him
dead, we, wounded, retreated, as best as we could, to the
boats which were already pulling off.
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Reference:
Torres J.V. (2022), Batis Sources in Phillippine History.
Quezon City: C & E Publishing, Inc.