[1609] Most observers forget, however, when they look upon a map of this ocean, that the name of an island or group upon the map may cover a hundred, not to say a thousand, times as much space on the paper as the island or group takes up on the surface of the world. Dr. Charles Darwin calls attention to such forgetfulness, in the Voyage of the Beagle.
[1610] The identification attempted on the map (taken from the Hakluyt Society’s volume on Magellan) is one of many conjectures.
[1611] He died in 1534. A brother-in-law of Magellan, Duarte Barbosa, who was killed at the same time with his chief, prepared a manuscript in 1516, which was printed by Ramusio in Italian as Sommario di tutti li regni dell’Indie orientali. This paper, describing from such sources as were available the eastern regions, had not a little influence on Magellan. The original Portuguese was printed by the Lisbon Academy in their Noticias Ultramarinhas, in 1813.
[1612] Bulletin de in Société de Géographie, September, 1843.
[1613] Pigafetta himself mentions a manuscript, Uno libro scripto de tutti le cose passate de giorno in giorno nel viaggio, written by his own hand, and presented by him to Charles the Fifth. Harrisse thinks it was written in French, and describes the manuscripts, Bibl. Amer. Vet. Add., pp. xxx-xxxiii.
[1614] This petition is given in Stanley’s Magellan, and in Harrisse’s Bibl. Amer. Vet. Add., p. xxviii.
[1615] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 134; Carter-Brown, no. 86; Brunet, iv. 650; Des Brosses, Navigations aux terres Australes, i. 121; Panzer, viii. 217; Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova, ii. 376.
[1616] On the strength of Livres Curieux, p. 29.
[1617] Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 192.
[1618] Ramusio included it in his Viaggi in 1554, with annotations.