RPH: CHAPTER 2

First Voyage Around

The World
by:
Rona Charisse D.
Catapang
Daniela Marie D. Araja
 • Historical Sources – historian’s primary tool of
understanding and interpreting the past
• Primary Sources – consist of documents, memoir, accounts
and other materials that were produced at the period of
event of subject of being studied

Two Kinds of Criticism

1. External Criticism – examines the authenticity of the
document or the document being used
2. Internal Criticism – examines the truthfulness of the
content of the evidence
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 About the Author
Antonio Pigafetta
Antonio Pigafetta (1491 – c.1534),
born around 1490 in the town of
Vicenza, Venice, Italy, was the
eldest son of Giovanni Pigafetta
to second wife Angela Zoga.)

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Antonio Pigafetta
⬗ After getting the approval of the Spanish sovereign, he
left Barcelona and went to Seville and presented his
credentials to Magellan and to the Casa de la
Contratacion
⬗ Pigafetta survived the challenges and catastrophes
that the expedition encountered along the way,
including being wounded in the Battle of Mactan
⬗ September 6, 1522 – He was among the survivors who
returned to Spain aboard the Victoria with Juan
4 Sebastian Elcano.
About the Book
The First Voyage Around
the World by Magellan by
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
Pigafetta kept a detailed
journal of what happened to
them from time they left Seville
in 1519 until they returned to
Spain three years after.
The First Voyage Around The World by
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
⬗ was written on board one of the 5
ships that was first to
circumnavigate the world during an
expedition that was lead by the
Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand
Magellan
⬗ was written from the perspective of
Pigafetta himself
⬗ was published after Pigafetta
returned to Italy
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The First Voyage Around The World by
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
⬗ narrated lucidly how they gallantly survived the unforeseen
problems and challenges, such as shortage of food, various
types of diseases, the crew’s lack of confidence in
Magellan’s leadership, and the hostile attitude of the people
they encountered during the journey

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 A BRIEF SUMMARY
of The First Voyage Around the
World by Magellan by ANTONIO
PIGAFETTA

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 • Enrique de Malacca – Magellan’s slave/ interpreter
• March 16, 1521 – Magellan’s arrival in Zamal
(Samar)
• Ladrones Islands – “Islands of the Thieves”
• The fleet went to Humunu Island (Homonhon) and
there they found what Pigafetta referred to as
“Watering Place of Good Signs”
• They names the island with the nearby islands as
the archipelago of St. Lazarus

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 • March 25, 1521 – they left the island
• The leader sent his men to the ship of
Magellan
• Raia Calambu – king of Zuluan and Calagan
(Butuan and Caragua)
• March 31, 1521 – first mass in the
Philippines was held in Mazaua (Limasawa)

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 “
… 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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 • April 7, 1521 – Magellan and his men
entered the port of Zzubu
• Magellan and his men encountered some
struggle when first entering the port of
Zzubu

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 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 wished he should do the like.
Our people answered that he would do it. Besides that,
he said that all the captains who came to this country
had been accustomed to make a present to him, and he
to the, 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
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would do his duty.”
 • The following day, Magellan spoke before
the people of Cebu about peace and God
• Pigafetta related how the people talked
about, how at old age, parents were no
longer taken into account and had to follow
the orders of their children as the new
leaders of the land.

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