pigafetta’s vovage round the world.

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return to his wife, fettled in an ifland feven hundred leagues diftant, where he propofesto end his days.”

On the lower part of the globe, beneath the equinoctial line, the following infcrip-tion is feen :—

“ Be it known that this figure of the globe reprefents the whole extent of the earth,in latitude as well as in longitude, laid down geometrically, i° according to Ptolemey ,from the Cofmographia Ptolomasi ; 2 9 from the relations of the Cavagliero MarcoPolo, who travelled into the eaft in the year 1250, from Venice ; 3 0 from what therefpeftable Doctor, Sir John Mandeville , publilhed in 1322, in his work on thecountries in the eaft unknown to Ptolomey , and on all the iflands pertaining thereto,from which u 7 e draw our fpices and precious ftones; and 4 0 from the voyages caufedto be undertaken by Don Juan King of Portugal , in 1485, to the remaining parts ofthe globe in the fouth which were unknown to Ptolomey , at the difcovery of which I,who made this globe, was prefent. Towards the weft is the fea called the Ocean, onwhich alfo we have navigated beyond the limits defcribed by Ptolomey , from the co-lumns of Hercules to the Azores Iflands, Fayal and Pico, inhabited by the noble andpious Ritter, Job de Huerter, of Moerkirchen, my dearly beloved father-in-law, whorefides there with the colonifts tranfported from Flanders, and who poffefles and governsthem. Moreover, towards the gloomy regions of the north, are found on this globe,beyond the fpace known to Ptolomey, Iceland, Norway , and Ruflia, countries newly dis-covered, and to which every year veflels are difpatched, notwithftanding people ingeneral are fimple enough to imagine, that, from the form of the globe all parts cannotbe travelled over or navigated.”

Beneath Prince’s Ifland, and thofe of Saint Thomas and Saint Martin, is written :—“ Thefe iflands were difcovered by the veflels which the King of Portugal fent to thefekeys of the countries of the Moors in the year 1484. They were then no other thandeferts, in which no man was found, nor any thing but forefts and birds. The King ofPortugal annually tranlports hither fuch of his fubjedtsas have merited death, men andwomen, and gives them lands to cultivate for their fupport, to the end thefe iflands maybe peopled with Portuguefe.”

“ Item.—In thefe countries fummer reigns while with us it is winter ; and all thefeathery tribe, and all the quadrupeds, are differently formed to thofe of our country.Much amber grows here alfo, which we, in Portugal , call algalhia.”

Doppelmayr has given a reprefentation of this globe on a very fmall fcaJe, though,generally fpeaking, in a pretty correct manner. However there are feveral places laiddown on the globe which Doppelmayr does not quote. I fhall fubjoin all that is writtenupon it from a faithful copy taken by me from the globe itfelf.

At the Cape of Good Hope is written:—

“ Here the columns of the King of Portugal were erected, in the year of our Saviour1485.

“ In the year from the birth of Jefus Chrift, 1484, the illuftrious Don Juan, Kingof Portugal , caufed two veflels to be equipped, called caravellas, well furnilhed withmen, and with provifions and arms for three years. This equipment was ordered tofail paft the columns raffed by Hercules in Africa , navigating conftantly towards thefouth, and towards the countries where the fun rifes as far as might be poflible; the faidKing moreover caufed thefe veflels to be laden with all kinds of merchandize, to be foldor bartered ; as well, he put on board eighteen horfes, richly caparifoned, defigned asprefents for the Moorilh Kings, one to each, as we might deem expedient. Specimenswere likewife given to us of all kinds of fpices, to exhibit to the Moors, that they might

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