OUTLINE:

3 PRIMARY SOURCES

 Antonio Pigafetta’s First Voyage Around the world

 Francisco Albo’s Log Book
 The Miguel Lopez de Legaspi Expedition

Antonio Pigafetta
 Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491 – c. 1531) was an Italian scholar and explorer from the Republic of
Venice. He joined the expedition to the Spice Islands led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan under
the flag of King Charles I of Spain

EVIDENCES

ISLAND COORDINATES AND DISTANCE

Island location:

9.66 deg towards the artic pole(LATITUDE)

162 degrees from the line of demarcation longitude ( 115.5 degrees)

25 leagues from Acquada (138.9 km)

Mazaua

FROM GOOGLE

LIMASAWA

9.9 degree latitude N

125 degree longitude E

ROUTE FROM HOMONHON TO MAZAUA

The route taken after leaving Homonhon

towards the west southwest between four Islands: namely Cenalo, Hiunanghan, Ibusson and Albarien.
(All mainland’s of Leyte)

They left Homonhon sailing westwards Leyte(Seylon, Ceilani)

followed the Leyte coast west southwards

passing between the island of Hibuson on their portside and Hiunangan Bay on their

starboards and the continued southward and then turning westward to “Mazaua”

TWO RAJAS DESCRIPTION

‘before we left, the kings kissed our hands with great joy, and we his. One of his brothers, the king of
ANOTHER ISLAND, and three men came with us”

‘the island of his was called Butuan and calagan, when those kings wished to see one another, they both
went to hunt in that island where we were. The name of the first king is Raia Colambu and Raia Siaui”

“The interpreter asked him for what reason there was so little to eat in that place, to which the king
replied that he did not reside in that place except when he came to hunt and to see his brother, but that
he lived in another island where he had all his family.”

ISLAND DESCRIPTION

“There are dogs, cats, swine, fowls, goats, rice, ginger, coonuts, figs, oranges, lemons, millet, panicum,
sorgo, wax, and a quantity of gold in that ISLAND”
FRANCISCO ALBO
Francisco Albo, botswain and navigator from the island of Rhodes. Originally botswain of the
Trinidad in Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, he then became pilot of the Victoria under the
command of Sebastian de Elcano.

LOG BOOK RECORD

“From here(HUMONHON ISLAND) we departed and sailed W., and fell in with a large island
called Seilani [Leyte], which is inhabited, and contains gold; we coasted it, and went to W.S.W., to
a small inhabited island called Mazaba [Limasawa]. The people are very good, and there we
placed a cross upon a mountain; and from thence they showed us three islands in the W.S.W.
direction, and they say there is much gold there, and they showed us how they gather it, and
they found small pieces like beans and like lentils; and this island is in 9⅓° N. latitude”
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DIRECTION
Miguel López de
Legazpi,
(born c. 1510, Zumárraga, Spain—died Aug. 20, 1572, Manila, Phil.), Spanish
explorer who established Spain’s dominion over the Philippines that lasted
until the Spanish-American War of 1898.

the Legazpi ships rounded the island of "Panae" (Panaon), which was separated from Leyte by a narrow
strait, and anchored off "Mazaua". From Mazaua they went to Camiguing which was visible from Mazaua
and from there thy intended to go to Butuan on the island of Vindanao but were driven instead by
contrary winds to Bohol.