A Brief Summary of the First

Voyage Around the World by

Magellan by Antonio Pigafetta
 FERDINAND MAGELLAN
 February 3, 1480-April 27, 1521
 Portuguese Explorer who organised the
Spanish Expenditions to the East Indies
from 1519-1522 search from wesren
route to Maluku Islands (the Spice
Island) resulting in the first
circumnavigation of the Earth, completed
by Juan Sebastian Elcano

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 Antonio Pigafetta
 1491- 1531
 Italian scholar and explorer from the
republic of Venice
 He travel with the portuguese explorer
Ferdinand Magellan and his crew by
order of the King Charles I of Spain on
their Voyage around the world
 His work becone a classic that
prominent literaly men in the West like
Willaim Shakespeare, Michel de
Montaigne and Giambattista Vico
refferdto the book in thier interpritation of
the New World.
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 His travellogue is one of the most important primry

source in the study of pre-colonial Philippines.

 His account was also a major refernt to the events
leading to Magellans arrival in the Philippines, his
encounter to local leaders, his death in the hands of
Lapu-lapu’s forces in the Battle of Mactan and in the
Departure of what was left of Magellan’s fleet from the
Islands.

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 The First Voyage Around the World by
Magellan
 The documents reveals several insights not just in the character
of the Philippines during pre-colonial period, but also on how the
fresh eyes of the European regard a deeply unfamiliar, terran,
environment, people and culture.
 Published after Pigafetta returned to the Italy.
 Antonio Pigafetta wrote his fristhand observation and general
impression of the Far East including their Experiences in the
Visayas.
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 In Pigafetta’s account, their fleet reached what he called the
Ladornes or the “Island of the Thieves”
These people have no arms, but use sticks, which have a
fishbone at the end. They are poor, but ingenious, and greate
thieves, and for the sake of that we called these three islands
the Ladrones Islands.
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Ladrones Island

 also known as Islands of the Thieves

presented the Mariana Islands
 It is located south-southeast of Japan, west-
southeast of Hawaii, north of New Guinea, ans
east of Philippines
 The place where he wrote his firsthand
observation and general eempression in the Far
East, including their experience in Visayas.

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 Since magellan and his crew acrossed the
international Dateline, there is one day added to the
original dates that Antonio Pigafetta wrote in his
book for the better prespective of us Filipinos.

 There was a translator named Enrique throughout

the expedition from Malacca and a slave of
Ferinand Magellan.

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March 17, 1521 (originally March 16, 1521)
• They arraived in Zamal (Samar at present) but Magellan decided to land
in another uninhabited island for greater security where they could rest
for a few days.
• Atfer two days, March 18, nine men came to them and show joy and
came and eagrness in seeing them and welcomed them with food,
drinks, and gift.
• The natives gave them:
-Fish
-Palm wine
-Figs
-2 cochos
-Rice (umai)
-cocos

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Pigafetta describe what seemed like a coconut.

"This palm produces a fruit names cocho, which is large as the

head, or thereabouts: its first husk is green, and two fingers in
thickness, in it they find certain threads, with which they make the
cords for fastening their boats. Under this husks there is another
very hard, and thicker than that of a walnut. They burned this
second rind, and make with it a powder which is useful to them.
Under this rind there is a white marrow of a fingers thickness,
which they eat fresh with meat and fish, as we do bread, and it
has the taste of almond, and if anyone dried it he might make
bread of it.
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• "very familiar and friendly"
• Willingly showed them different islands and the names of
this islands.
• They went to Humunu Island (Homonhon) (Watering Place
of Good Signs) where they found the first signs of gold in
the island.
• They named the island with the nearby islands as the
Archipelago of St. Lazarus
• March 25, they saw two ballangai (balangay)

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Ballangai (balangay)
• A long boat full of people in Mazzava/Mazaua.
• The leader (king) (Raia Siagu) sent his men to the
ship of Magellan.
• The king offered to give Magellan a bar of gold and
chest of ginger, Magellan declined. Instead
Magellan asked for money for the needs of his
ships. The king responded by giving them the
needed provisions and food in chinaware.

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• Magellan exchanged gifts of robes in Turkish
fashions, red cap, knives and mirrors.
• The two men expressed their desire to become
brothers.
• Magellan also boasted of his men in an armor who
could not struck with swords and daggers. The king
was fascinated and remarked that men in such
armor could be worth one hundred of his men.
• Magellan showed other weapons, helmets and
artilleries. He also shared his charts and maps and
how they found the islands.

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• Magellan was introduced to the king’s brother
who also ling of another island.
• They wenr to this island and they saw mines
of gold.
• The gold was abundant that the parts of the
ship and thr house of the second king were
made of gold.

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 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 3
March 31 (Easter Sunday)
• Magellan ordered the chaplain to preside a Mass by
the shore.

• The king sent two dead pigs and attended the Mass
with the other king.
"...when the offertory of the mass came, the two
kings, went to kiss the cross like us, but they
offered nothing, and at the elevation of the body of
our Lord they were kneeling like us, and adored our
Lord with joined hands."
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• After the Mass, Magellan ordered that the cross be
brought with nails and crowned in place.

• Magellan explained that the cross, the nail, and the

crown were the signs of his emperor and that he was
ordered to plant it in the places that he would reach
and the cross would be beneficial for their people
because once the Spaniards saw this cross, then they
would know that they had been in this land and would
not cause them troubles, and any person who might be
held captives by them would be released.
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 APRIL 7, 1521
• Magellan and his men reached the port of Cebu, the largest and the
richest of the islands with the helped of Raia Calambu.
• The king of Cebu (Rajah Humabon) demanded that they pay tribute as
it was customary but Magellan refused.
• Magellan said that he was the captain himself and thus would not pay
tribute to the other king.
• Magellan's interpreter explained to the king of Cebu that Magellan's
king was the emperor of the great empire and that it would do them
better to make friends with them than to forge enmity.
• The king consulted his council and the next day, together with the
other principal men of Cebu, they met in an open space and the king
offered a bit of his blood demanded that Magellan do the same. 3
"Then the king said that he was content, and as a greater
sign of affection he sent him a little of his blood from his
right arm, and wish he should do the like. Our people
answered that he would do it. Besides that, he said that all
the captains who came to his country had been accustomed
to make a present to him, and he to them, and therefore
they should ask their captain if he would observe the
custom. Our people answered that he would: but as the king
wished to keep up the custom, let him begin and make a
present, and then the captain would do his duty."
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• Magellan spoke about peace and God.
People took pleasure in his speech. Magellan asked the
people who would succeed the king after his reign and the
people responded that the eldest child of the king, who
happened to be a daughter, would be the next in line.
• Parents were no longer taken into account and has to
follow the orders of their children as the new leaders of
the land.
• People wished to become Christians through their free will
and not because they were forced or intimidated.
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 April 14
• The people gathered with the king and other principal men of the
island. Magellan spoke and encouraged the king to be a good
Christian by burning all the idols and worship the cross instead.
• The king of Cebu was baptized as Christians.

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 "To that the king and all his people answered that thy
would obey the commands of the captain and do all that
he told them. The captain took the king by the hand, and
they walk about on the scaffolding, and when he was
baptized he said that he would name him Don Charles
(Carlos), as the emperor his sovereign was named: and he
named the Prince Don Fernand (Fernando), after the
brother of the emperor, and the king of Mazavva Jehan: to
the Moor he gave the name of Christopher, and to the
others each a name of his fancy.".
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• After eight days, all of the islands inhabitant were
already baptized.
• Pigafetta admitted that they burned a
village down for obeying neither the king nor
Magellan.
• The Mass was conducted by the shore everyday.
• When the queen (Hara Amihan) came to the Mass
one day, Magellan gave her an Image of the Infant
Jesus made by Pigafetta himself.
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 April 26
• Zula, a principal man from the island of Matan (Mactan)
went to see Magellan and ask him a boat full of men so
that he could fight the chief name Silalapulapu
(Lapulapu).
• According to Zula, Lapulapu refused to obey the king
and was also preventing him from doing so.
• Magellan offered three boats and went to Mactan
himself to fight Lapulapu.
• They arrived in Mactan in daylight with 49 in numbers
while the islanders of Mactan were estimated to
number 1500. 3
 "When we reached land we found the islanders
fifteen hundred in number, drawn up in three
squadrons; they came down upon us with terrible
shouts, two squadrons attacking us on the flanks,
and the third in front. The captain then divided his
men in two bands. Our musketeers and crossbow-
men fired for half an hour from a distance, but did
nothing, since the bullets and arrows, though they
passed through their shields made of thin wood,
and perhaps wounded their arms, yet did not stop 3
 "The captain shouted not to fire, but he was not
listened to. The islanders seeing that the shots of
our guns did them little or no harm would not retire,
but shouted more loudly, and springing from one
side to the other to avoid our shots, they at the
same time drew nearer to us, throwing arrows,
javelins, spears hardened in fire, stones and even
mud, so that we could hardly defend ourselves.
Some of them cast lances pointed with iron at the
captain-general." 3
• Magellan died in the battle.
• The natives perceiving that the bodies of the enemies were
protected with armors, aimed for their legs instead. Magellan was
pierced with a poisoned arrow in his right leg.
• A few of their men charges at the natives and tried to intimidate
them by burning an entire village but this only enraged the natives
further.
• Magellan was specifically targeted because the native knew he was
the captain general.
• Magellan was hit with a lance in the face. 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 natives ceaselessly attacked 3
 "Whilst the Indians were thus overpowering him,
several times he turned round towards us to see if
we were all in safety, as though his obstinate fight
had no other object than to give an opportunity
for the retreat of his men."

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• The king of Cebu was baptized could have sent
help but Magellan instructed him not to join the
battle and stay in the balangay so that he would
see how they fought.
• The king offered the people of Mactan’c gift of
any value and amount in exchange of Magellan’s
body but the chief refused. They wanted to keep
Magellan’s body as a momento of their victory.

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• Duarte Barbosa is elected as the new captain.

• Henry, Magellan's slave and interpreter betrayed them

and told the king of Cebu that they intended to leave as
quickly as possible. The slave allegedly told the king that
if he followed his advice, the king would acquire the
ships and the goods of Magellan's fleet.

• The two conspired and betrayed what was left of

Magellan's men.
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• The king invited these men to a gathering where he said
he would present the jewelry that he would send to the
King of Spain.
• Twenty-four men attended while Pigafetta was not able
to joined b he was nursing his battle wounds.
• The natives has slain all the men except the interpreter
and Juan Serrano who was already wounded.
• The fleet departed and abandoned Serrano.
• They left Cebu and continued their journey around the
world.
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• From the original five ships set to sail( San Antonio, Concepcion,
Victoria, Trinidad and Santiago) only Victoria returned to Spain.

• And from the original 237 men only 18 men survived and one of
them was Pigafetta and Juan Sebastian Elcano .

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Analysis of Pigafetta
Chronicle