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have been clothed in a more decorous garb. I am not ignorant that in the narrativeof our traveller ufelefs things frequently occur; and occafionally fome which are inap-propriate or fdly ; but I reafon with the Prefident Debroffes # , tc that one is naturallyanxious of knowing in what manner things were regarded by thofe who faw them forthe firft time; and that one ought to {hew refpedt to the obfervations of the modearly travellers, though oftentimes their conceptions are but of limited extent f;” andas many celebrated writers have handed down to us, even byextra&s, the faults andmiftakes of their authors, I have thought right in publiflung this voyage to imitatetheir example.

XXVIII. There remains I Ihould fpeak of the geographical charts which adorn ourmanufcripts. They are in number twenty-one ; on thefe Pigafetta has traced SouthAmerica, and all the iflands of the Pacific Ocean and of the Ealt Indies, where ournavigators anchored, which they faw in palling, or which were pointed out to them aslaying on the line of their courfe. Thefe charts are coloured ; the fea is blue, theearth the colour of foot, the mountains green, and the huts and houfes white. In oneof the charts is a pirogue, a boat ufed among thofe people, carrying two men ; and inanother is the clove-tree. The charts are very incorrect; but we fee by them that theauthor has prefented objedts either as they {truck or were pointed out to him ; onwhich account he has placed the north on the bottom of the page, and the fouth at top ;fo that, in order to give to the feveral places the pofition commonly given by geo-graphers, they require to be reverfed J.

XXIX. To afford an idea of the manner in which Pigafetta defigned his charts, andto render the whole work more intelligible, I have given two geographical charts, anda view of the Strait of Magellan as laid down by the moderns, thus enabling the readerto compare them with the defign by the author. The firft chart is a terreftrial plani-fphere, on which the voyage of Pigafetta is marked by points. In one of the notes ofBook II. will be feen the data from which it is formed. The fecond chart prefents,under one point of view, a collection of the charts of the manufcript, in which our tra-veller has reprefented the archipelago of the Philippines and the Moluccas , from the•Mariana iflands to that of Timor ; and in this alfo I have indicated by dots the courfewhich the vefl'el purfued between fo many iflands, forming as it were a labyrinth in atea, which even in the prefent day embarraffes the navigator. At firft fight, thecharts of Pigafetta appear to be drawn from fancy, or, at leaft, to be ufelefs tonavigation, feeing there is no relation between one and another, and that the degrees°f latitude and longitude are not laid down. But when thefe charts are joinedtogether in the fucceftion the author fpeaks of the iflands marked in them, it will befeen they may be reduced to one ; and that Pigafetta , with a precifion far beyond whatcould be expected for the time, has been the firft to furnifh materials for the geography°f thefe leas. I have myfelf, with much patience, connected thefe charts, reducingtheir ditnenfions, but at the fame time preferving as much as poffible their relativeproportions; and have given in one map the whole of this archipelago, omitting only the

Hid. des Voyages aux Terres Auftrales, tom i. p.97. f Tome i. preface,

t Other geographers, and efpeciaily Ramufio and Urbano Monti , gave a fisnilar pofition in their charts° the places of which they fpoke. The latter, whom I fliall have occafion fiequently to quote, was atudantfe gentlemen, who, in IJ90, defigned and caufed to be engraven a geographical chart which com-P r, zes the whole of the earth known in Iris time. It is compofed of fixty-four (fleets, and thefe forming°ur elipfoides, feem to have been intended to cover a globe. To erch (heet the author affixed a very^tailed defcription of the political, religious, civil, and natural hifiory of the country tl ere reprefented.. he whole work was ready for the preis, but the plates alone have been publilhed. This manufcript is,a ° Ur library, and is mentioned by Saffi.

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