EVIDENCE 1

The word “LIMASAWA”

was not mentioned at
all.
MAZAUA - MASAO
 EVIDENCE 2
• The expedition travelled 20 to 25
leagues from Homonhon, the first
landing point.

• The distance to Cebu from

Mazaua according to Pigafetta
was 35 leagues (140 miles).
 EVIDENCE 3
• BALANGHAI BOATS
 EVIDENCE 4
• The island of Mazzaua has
great quantity of fowls,
goats, pigs and many more
especially gold mines.

• Porcelain Jars
 EVIDENCE 5
• MARCH 31, 1521- they went
ashore to say mass and set up
cross on the summit of the
mountain.
• Magellan instructed his comrades
to plant a large wooden cross on
the top of the hill.
 EVIDENCE 6
• On June 19, 1960, the Philippine
Congress enacted a bill [R.A. No.
2733] declaring Limasawa as the
place where Magellan celebrated
the first recorded mass in the
Philippines on Easter Sunday,
March 31, 1521.
• It was the American historian
Emma Helen Blair and John
Alexander Robertson who claimed
in 1909 that the island of Mazaua
is the present island of Limasawa
without giving any explanation for
the identification.