The captains-general shall take four chests, on which they will pay
only the twentieth 4
The other captains shall take three chests apiece on the same terms 3
Accountant and treasurer two chests apiece 2
The notaries of the ships one chest apiece 1
Masters and pilots, each one chest 1
Boatswains, one chest apiece 1
Alguacil of the fleet, one chest 1
Chaplains, one chest apiece 1
The merinos of the fleets, one chest apiece 1
The captains’ servants, one chest for each two 1
Physician and surgeon, one chest 1
Sailors, one chest for each two 1
Common seamen, one chest for each two 1
Boys, one chest for each three 1
Master gunners of the ships, each one chest 1
The other gunners, one chest for each two 1
Carpenters, calkers, coopers, masons, crossbowmen, and sailors, one
chest for each two 1
Stewards, one chest apiece 1
Sobresalientes, one chest apiece 1
[472] Not nephew, as translated by Stanley (p. 126), as is shown later
by the context. MS. 5,650 spells his name “Calanoghapi.”
[473] The remainder of this sentence is not in MS. 5,650.
[474] In MS. 5,650 this is changed considerably, reading: “And
because he did not have enough merchandise to furnish our ships, he
told us that he would go to an island called Bacchian,” etc.
[475] Leonardo de Argensola (Vol. XVI, p. 221) derives Maluco from the
word “Moloc” meaning “the capital.” Crawfurd says that the
derivation and meaning of the word is unknown, although said to be that
of a people and place in Gilolo. It has been applied as a collective
name to all the islands of their district, but it is correct of only
the five mentioned by Pigafetta (for whose ancient names, see Vol. XVI,
p. 221). Varthema (Travels, Hakluyt Society edition, pp. 245, 246),
gives a slight account of the district under the name of the “island
of Monoch, where the cloves grow,” which Magalhães showed to Cárlos
I (Guillemard’s Magellan, p. 102). Barbosa gives the first authentic
account of the five Moluccas (which he names) in his East African and
Malabar Coasts (Hakluyt Society edition), pp. 201, 202, 219, 220. See
also Crawfurd’s Dictionary, pp. 283–285.
[476] Francisco Serrão, brother of João Serrão, was Magalhães’s
most intimate friend, and they had been close companions in the
stirring years of early Portuguese operations in far eastern waters. In
1509, Serrão sailed on the fleet sent by Almeida to reconnoiter
Malacca. Having been sent ashore with a large force, he was attacked by
the Malays and only the prompt assistance headed by Magalhães saved
him. In January, 1510, while returning from the expedition, he suffered
shipwreck. In 1511 he was sent as captain of one of three ships under
Antonio d’ Abreu to the Moluccas for purposes of exploration and
trade, but the expedition failed to reach the islands, going only as
far as the islands of Banda. On this expedition, Serrão’s ship was
abandoned as unseaworthy, and the junk bought in its stead was wrecked
on an island. Here pirates landing, Serrão and his men took possession
of their boats and thus reached Amboina in safety. The opportunity
offering, Serrão went to Ternate, where he espoused the cause of that
king against the king of Tidore, by the latter of whom he was finally
poisoned about the time of Magalhães’s death. A number of letters
passed between Magalhães and Serrão, during the years spent by the
latter in Ternate, and Magalhães made use of them to persuade Cárlos
I to undertake the expedition. See Guillemard’s Magellan.
[477] See Navarrete, iv, and Guillemard’s Magellan for details
regarding Magalhães’s negotiations with Manoel of Portugal and his
subsequent denaturalization. The testoon (tostão, tostões) is a
Portuguese silver coin. It was first struck in the fifteenth century
(Hazlitt’s Coinage of European Continent).
[478] It is impossible to be sure of the correct form of these names.
MS. 5,650 gives them as follows: “Checchily Momoly, Tadore Vimghi,
Checchily de Roix, Cili Manzur, Cilli Paggi, Chialin, Checchilin
Catara, Vaiechuserich, and Colano Ghappi.” Amoretti (followed by
Stanley) makes these names “Chechili-Momuli, Jadore Vunghi,
Chechilideroix, Cilimanzur, Cilipagi, Chialinchechilin, Cataravajecu,
Serich, and Calanopagi.” Mosto gives the names as in the present
edition with the exception of the sixth and seventh which he gives as
“Chialin Chechilin” and “Cathara.” Checheli (Chechelin) and
possibly Cili, denotes the title Cachil (“noble”).
[479] Called by Barros “João de Lourosa, a man disloyal to his
country (Mosto, p. 94, note 5). The “Roteiro” (Stanley, pp. 23,
24), says that this man was found in the island of Targatell (Ternate)
and that letters were sent him, asking him “to come and speak with
them, to which he replied that he did not dare, because the king of the
country forbade it.” However, permission is secured from the king and
Lorosa comes to the ships. An extract from a letter from the Indies
(Vol. I, p. 299) says that Lorosa was taken prisoner. Brito (Navarrete,
iv, p. 305) merely mentions the fact that he had left with the
Spaniards. He remained with the “Trinidad,” and was promptly
executed by the Portuguese when he fell into their hands (see
Guillemard’s Magellan, p. 303).
[480] MS. 5,650 adds: “hearing that.”
[481] In Eden: “ſixe hundreth and fiftie.” The native name of
Gilolo is Bato-tsima (also called Almahera), and the island belongs to
the Netherlands, being included in the residency of Ternate. The
population, estimated at 120,000, consists of Malays and Alfuros
(pagans; a word apparently formed from the Arabic article al and fora,
“without,” and applied by the Portuguese to natives outside of
their authority) the latter probably representing the pre-Malayan
populations, and inhabiting the central portion of the island.
[482] Eden (p. 227), translating from Oviedo, mentions canes “as
bygge as a mans legge in the knee and three ſpannes in length frome
ioynt to ioynt or more.... Theyr canes are full of moſte cleare water
without any maner of taſt or ſauore eyther of the canes or of any
other thynge: And ſuche as yf it were taken owte of the freſſheſte
ſprynge in the worlde.” Pigafetta probably refers to some species of
bamboo.
[483] MS. 5,650 reads: “for ten aunes of cloth [dyed with]
munjeet.” Guzerati or Guzerat (Gujerat, Gugerat, Goojerat, Gujrat)
one of the old provinces of India, of which the Kattywar peninsula
forms the western part, was a dependency of the Affghân or Ghôri
empire of Hindostan until the end of the fourteenth century. It became
an independent kingdom in 1408. See Badger’s introduction to
Varthema’s Travels (Hakluyt Society edition), p. lviii. Foster’s
Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe (Hakluyt Society publications, London, 1899),
says of Guzerat (pp. 539, 540): “Guzratt. A goodly Kingdom enclosing
the bay of Cambaya. The Cheefe Citty is Amadavaz [Ahmadábád]. It
Conteynes the Citty and Gouerment of Cambaya, the bewty of India, the
Territorie and Citty of Surat, and Barooch [Broach]. It is watered with
many goodly Riuers, as that of Cambaya [the Máhi], falsely supposed to
be Indus, the Riuer of Narbadah, falling into the Sea at Barooch, that
of Suratt, and diuers others. It trades to the Red Sea, to Achyn, and
many places.” Its ports were important centers of trade.
[484] This item is missing in MS. 5,650, and in Eden.
[485] Cf. with the prices of various oriental products in Barbosa’s
East African and Malabar Coasts (Hakluyt Society edition), pp.
221–223.
[486] Probably it was because of this belief that the ships intended to
take in water near Celebes, “because they feared that in Maluco they
would not be allowed to take it in” (see the “Roteiro,” Stanley,
p. 22).
[487] MS. 5,650 omits the remainder of this paragraph.