TOPIC: First Voyage Around the World

DISCUSSANTS: Jea Mae M. Levantino

Jessa H. Gerona
PROGRAM: BSEd English |
SUBJECT: Readings in the Philippine History
INSTRUCTOR: Iris Cristine F. Gonzales
TERM: 1st Semester – Prelims AY. 2022-2023
DATE: September 7, 2022
REFERENCE: https://thebigraphy.us/en/pigafetta-antonio
https://archieve.org/details/firstvoyahearound00piga
https://prezi.com/p/fjnraprzdu7l/the-first-voyage-around-the-world/

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THE FIRST VIYAGE AROUND THE WORLD: READINGS IN THE PHILIPPINE

HISTORY- MWF 11:00-12:00AM

"THE FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD"

By:Magellan and Antonio Pigafetta

About the authors

Magellan
• Known for
The Magellan expedition
Finding the Strait of Magellan
First European Pacific Ocean crossing

•Portuguese Explorer whoorganised the SpanishExpeditions to the EastIndies

from 1519-1522 tosearch for western routeto the Maluku Islands( the Spice
Island)resulting in the rstcircumnavigation of theEarth, completed by
JuanSebastian Elcano
Antonio Pigafetta
•Known by the name of Antonio Lombardo of Francisco Antonio Pigafetta
•Famous Italian traveler
•Born in Vicenza around 1490
•Died in the same City in 1534
•Studied astronomy, geography and cartography and during his younger
years,he worked in the ships owned by the Knights of Rhodes
•Joined the Magallanes-Elcano famous expedition to the Moluccas begun in
August 1519 and finished September 1522
•Had a hand-written account of the expedition entitled “THE FIRST VOYAGE
AROUND THE WORLD” which will be analyzed later
1491-1531
Italian scholar andexplorer from therepublic of Venice
He traveled with theportugese explorerFerdinand Magellanand his crew by
orderof the King Charles 1of Spain oHis work became a classic that
prominentliterary men in the West like WilliamShakespeare, Michel de
Montaigne andGiambattista Vico referredto the book in theirinterpretation of
the New World.
His travelogue is one of the most importantprimary sources in the study of
precolonialPhilippines.
His account was also a major referent to theevents leading to Magellans arrival
in thePhilippines, his encounter with local leaders,his death in the hands of
Lapulapu’s forces inthe Battle of Mactan and in the depature ofwhat was left of
Man theirVoyage around theworld.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT
“The First Voyage Around The World” was written in one of the 5 ships of the
Magallanes-Elcano expedition.
King Charles V provided the Spanish fleet named Armada de Molucca whish
was led by Magellan.
This 5 ships were first one to circumnavigate around the world that was led by
Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer, and when he died in the battle of
Mactan,Juan Sebastian Elcano took over. HISTORICAL CONTEXT

THE 5 SHIPS
1.SANTIAGO
-Crew:32
-Under the command of Juan Serrano
-Smallest of the five ships
-Called as a “caravel”
-First ship that has been lost

2.SAN ANTONIO
-Crew:60
-Under the command of Juan De Cartagena
-Soon led by Alvarado de Mesquita
-Largest in the fleet
-Second ship that has been lost

3.CONCEPTION
-Crew:43
-Under the command of Gaspar de Quesada
-Captain was executed because of mutiny
-burned
-Third ship that has been lost

4.TRINIDAD
-Crew:55
-Under the command of Ferdinand Magellan
-The Flagship
-Was attacked by Portuguese ship
-Left shipwrecked
-Fourth ship that has been lost

5.VICTORIA
-Crew:43
-Under the command of Luiz Mendoza;soon led by Juan Sebastian Elcano
-Antonio Pigafetta on board
-First ship circumnavigated the world
-Only ship to complete the voyage

Out of the five ships,only 2 reached in the Philippines ,after the battle of
Mactan,their man is enough to man two ships:Trinidad and Victoria.Until they
returned to Spain,only one ship survived which is Victoria, one of the
survivors was Antonio Pigafetta which kept the journal about the expedition.

The original journal of Pigafetta did not survived throughout the history.What
was handed to us was just the manuscript that never came out of the press
during his lifetime.

Ladrones Island

Presently known as Marianas Islands.

It is located south-southeast of Japan,west-southwest of Hawaii, north of

NewGuinea, and east of Philippines

March 16, 1521

Pigafetta reported that they reach the isle of Zamal, now Samar, but Magellan
decided to land in another uninhabited island for greater security where they
could rest for a few days.

After two days, March 18, nine men came to them and show joy and eagerness
in seeing them and welcomed them with food, drinks, and gifts.

The natives gave them:

›
Fish
›
Palm wine ( uraca)
›
2 cochos
›
Rice (umai)
›
Cocos

March 25, they saw two ballangai

(balangay)
Ballangai
( balangay)

A long boat full of people in Mazzava/Mazaua.

The leader (king) (Raia Siagu) sent hismen to the ship of Magellan.

The king o ered to give Magellan a barof gold and chest of ginger,
Magellandeclined. Instead Magellan asked formoney for the needs of his ships.
Theking responded by giving them theneeded provisions and food
inchinaware.
Magellan exchanged gifts of robes in Turkish fashions, red cap, knives
andmirrors.

The two men expressed their desire tobecome brothers.

Magellan also boasted of his men in anarmor who could not struck with
swordsand daggers. The king was fascinated andremarked that men in such
armor could beworth one hundred of his men.

Magellan showed other weapons, helmetsand artilleries. He also shared his

chartsand maps and how they found the islands.
Magellan was introduced to the king’sbrother who was also king of
anotherisland.

They went to this island and they sawmines of gold.

The gold was abundant that the partsof the ship and the house of the
secondking were made of gold.
Raia Calambu

King of Zuluan and Calagan

( Butuan and Caragua)

Pigafetta described him as the most handsome of all men that he saw in this
place.

He was adorned with sick and golden accecories like golden dagger, which he
carried with him in a wooden polished sheath.
March 31 (Easter Sunday)

Magellan ordered the chaplain topreside a Mass by the shore.

The king sent two dead pigs andattended the Mass with the other
king.“…when the o ertory of the mass came,the two kings, went to kiss the
cross likeus, but they o ered nothing, and at theelevation of the body of our
Lord theywere kneeling like us, and adored ourLord with joined hands.”
April 7 1521

Magellan and his men reached the portof Cebu, the largest and the richest
ofthe islands with the helped of RaiaCalambu.

The king of Cebu (Rajah Humabon)demanded that they pay tribute as itwas
customary but Magellan refused.

Magellan said that he was the captainhimself and thus would not pay tributeto
the other king.
Magellan spoke about peace and God.People took pleasure in his speech.

Magellan asked the people who wouldsucceed the king after his reign and
thepeople responded that the eldest child ofthe king, who happened to be a
daughter,would be the next in line.

Parents were no longer taken into accountand has to follow the orders of
theirchildren as the new leaders of the land.

People wished to become Christiansthrough their free will and not

becausethey were forced or intimidated.
April 14

The people gathered with the king andother principal men of the island.

Magellan spoke and encouraged theking to be a good Christian by burningall

the idols and worship the crossinstead.

The king of Cebu was baptized asChristians.

April 26
Zula, a principal man from the island ofMatan (Mactan) went to see Magellan
andask him a boat full of men so that he could ght the chief name
Silalapulapu (Lapulapu).

According to Zula, Lapulapu refused to obeythe king and was also preventing
him fromdoing so.

Magellan o ered three boats and went toMactan himself to ght Lapulapu.

They arrived in Mactan in daylight with 49 innumbers while the islanders of

Mactan wereestimated to number 1500.
Magellan died in the battle.

The natives perceiving that the bodiesof the enemies were protected
witharmors, aimed for their legs instead.

Magellan was pierced with a poisonedarrow in his right leg.

A few of their men charges at thenatives and tried to intimidate them

byburning an entire village but this onlyenraged the natives further.

Magellan was speci cally targetedbecause the native knew he was

thecaptain general.
Magellan was hit with a lance in theface. Magellan retaliated and pierced the
same native with his lance in the breast and tried to draw his sword but could
not lift it because of his wounded arms. One native with a great sword
delivered a blow in Magellan’s left leg,brought him face down and the
nativesceaselessly attacked Magellan with lances, swords and even their
barehands.
The king of Cebu who was baptizedcould have sent help but
Magellaninstructed him not to join the battleand stay in the
balangay
so that hewould see how they fought.

The king o ered the people of Mactan’sgifts of any value and amount
inexchange of Magellan’s body but thechief refused. They wanted to
keepMagellan’s body as a momento of theirvictory.

From the original five ships set to sail( San Antonio, Concepcion, Victoria,
Trinidad and Santiago) only Victoriareturned to Spain.

And from the original 237 men only 18men survived.