The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605

Name: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605
Author: Antonio Pigafetta

by Antonio Pigafetta

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg.

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2015-01-09

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Public domain in the USA.

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Philippines -- History -- Sources Missions -- Philippines Philippines -- Discovery and exploration Demarcation line of Alexander VI

About the author

Antonio Pigafetta

A Venetian nobleman, sailor, and writer, he left one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition and the first circumnavigation of the globe. His journal helped preserve details of the voyage, the peoples the crew encountered, and the dangers of early ocean travel.

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