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On leaving Seville , I went to Vagliadolid, where I prefented to His facred MajeftyDon Carlos (Charles V .) neither gold nor filver indeed, but things far more preciousin his eyes : among other articles, I prefented him a book written with my own hand,in which, day by day, I had fet down every event on our voyage.
I left Vagliadolid as early as I was able, and repaired to Portugal, to prefent to KingJohn a narrative of what I had feen. Afterwards I travelled through Spain to France ,where I prefented different articles from the other hemifphere to the Queen Regent,mother of the Mott Chriflian King, Francis I .
At length I returned to Italy , where I devoted myfelf for ever to the fervice of SignorPhilippe de Villers l’lle-Adam, Grand Matter of Rhodes, to whom alfo I gave the nar-rative of my voyage.
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