Week 4 Ang Unang Paglalayag Paikot NG Mundo Ni Ferdinand Magellan
Week 4 Ang Unang Paglalayag Paikot NG Mundo Ni Ferdinand Magellan
Week 4 Ang Unang Paglalayag Paikot NG Mundo Ni Ferdinand Magellan
NG KONTEKSTO NG
MGA PILING
PRIMARYANG BATIS
ARALIN 1: “UNANG
PAGLALAYAG PAIKOT NG
DAIGDIG NI FERDINAND
MAGELLAN” NI ANTONIO
PIGAFETTA
Kontekstong Historikal
March 17, 1521 (the following day) – the captain-general desired to land on
another island which was uninhabited and lay to the right side of the above-
mentioned island, to be more secure and to get water and some rest.
March 18, 1521 (on Monday afternoon) , we saw a boat coming toward us
with nine men in it.
These men came to them and showed joy and eagerness in seeing them.
Magellan and group gave them food, drinks and gifts. In turn the natives
gave them fish, palm wine and two cochos or coconut. Pigafetta
characterized the people as “very friendly and friendly” and willingly
showed them different islands.
Excerpts from the Pigafetta’s account
March 22, 1521 (noon on Friday) those men came as they had
promised us in two boats with coconuts, sweet oranges, a jar of
palm-wine and a cock, in order to show us that there were fowls
in that district. Their seignior was an old man who was painted
[i.e., tattoed]. He wore two gold earrings [schione] in his ears,
and the others many gold armlets on their arms and kerchief
about [on] their heads. We stayed there one week.
Excerpts from the Pigafetta’s account
There are people living near the island who have holes [earrings] in their
ears so large that they can pass their arms through them. They go naked,
with a soft cloth woven from the bark of a tree about their privies, except
some of the chiefs who wear cotton cloth embroidered with silk at the
ends by means of needle. They are dark, fat and painted. They have very
black hair that falls to the waist, and use daggers, knives, and spears
ornamented.
After few days, Magellan was introduced to the king’s brother who
was also a king of another island. This king was named Raia
Calambu, the king of Zuluan and Calagan (Butuan and Caragua),
and the first king was Raia Siagu.
“He wore a cotton cloth all embroidered with silk, which covered him
from waist to knees. At his side hung a dagger, the haft of which was
somewhat long and all of gold, and its scabbard of carved wood. He had
three spots of gold on every tooth, and his teeth appeared as if
bound with gold. He was tawny and painted [i.e., tattooed] all over.
When those kings wished to see one another, they both went to hunt in
that island where we were.”
Excerpts from the Pigafetta’s account
Pigafetta recounts:
“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 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 the present, and then the captain would do his
duty.”
Excerpts from the Pigafetta’s account
The following day, Magellan spoke before the people of Cebu about
peace and God. Pigafetta reported that the people took pleasure in
Magellan’s speech. He also wrote that their men were over enjoyed
seeing that the people wished to become Christians through their
free will and not because they were forced or intimidated.
April 14 – the people gathered with the king and other principal men
of the islands. Magellan spoke to the king and encouraged him to
be a good Christian by burning all of the idols and worship the
cross instead. The king of Cebu was then baptized as Christian.
Excerpts from the Pigafetta’s account
After eight (8) days, Pigafetta counted that all of the island’s
inhabitant were already baptized. He admitted that they
burned a village down for obeying neither the king nor
Magellan.