Townsend's Narrative of a journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River . torial staff of The Jesuit Rela-tions and Allied Documents and co-editor of ThePhilippine Islands: 1493-1898. With numerous maps^plates^ and facsimiles. By far the best and fullest account of the expedition. — (juillemard. IGAFETTAS ACCOUNT, the fullestand best authority for the famous Voyageof Magellan, is here completely present-ed in English for the first time. Piga-fetta was an Italian of noble family,interested in navigation and fond oftravel. Happening to be in Spain whenMagellan was about to sail, he s
Townsend's Narrative of a journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River . torial staff of The Jesuit Rela-tions and Allied Documents and co-editor of ThePhilippine Islands: 1493-1898. With numerous maps^plates^ and facsimiles. By far the best and fullest account of the expedition. — (juillemard. IGAFETTAS ACCOUNT, the fullestand best authority for the famous Voyageof Magellan, is here completely present-ed in English for the first time. Piga-fetta was an Italian of noble family,interested in navigation and fond oftravel. Happening to be in Spain whenMagellan was about to sail, he secured permission toaccompany the expedition. Pigafetta kept a detailedaccount of the incidents of the voyage and faithfullyrecorded his observations on the geography, climate,and resources of the numerous strange countries vis-ited or described to him. Of especial value are hisremarks on the customs, physical character, and lan-guages of the various peoples of South America, andthe Ladrones, Philippines and other Asiatic Account, notwithstanding its great im-. portance to students, has never been adequately pub-lished. Stanley, in his translation for the HakluytSociety, omits many passages relating to the mannersand customs of native peoples, mis-translates otherpassages; and furthermore does not translate fromthe original Italian, but in part from a defectiveFrench MS. of later date, and in part fromAmorettisgarbled printed edition of the Ambrosian MS. The MS. which we use is the oldest in existenceand is conserved in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana atMilan. This MS. was purported to have been pub-lished in I 800 by Amoretti, but his publication waswhat the Italians call a refacimento, in which theorder is entirely changed at times to say nothing ofthe meaning. To insure a correct version of the text,the editor, Mr. Robertson, visited Milan and under-took the transcription personally. The numerous charts of the original are carefullyreproduced, together with a
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