The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

by Antonio Pigafetta

ILLUSTRATIONS

• [Pigafetta’s Chart of the Moluccas] 72
• [Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Bachian, etc.] 104
• [Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Amboina, etc.] 110
• [Pigafetta’s Chart of the Banda Islands] 114
• [Pigafetta’s Chart of the islands of Zolot, etc.] 118
• [Pigafetta’s Charts of the island of Timor, and of the Laut Chidol or Great Sea] 124
• [Photographic facsimile of last page of Pigafetta’s relation showing signature]; from the Pigafetta MS. in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy 146
• [Map of eastern Asia and the eastern archipelago, showing the Moluccas; drawn by Diego Homem, ca. 1558 (on vellum)]; photographic facsimile of original manuscript map in the British Museum 150, 151
• [“India tercera nova tabula”—map of the Eastern archipelago]; from Mattiolo’s edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia (Venetia, M. D. LXVIII); from a copy of this work in possession of Frank A. Hutchins, Madison, Wisconsin facing p. 190
• [Signature of Martin Ignacio de Loyola, author of the Itinerario in Mendoza’s Historia de ... China]; from MS. in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla facing p. 384