Pierson, Delevan Leonard, ed. Pacific Islanders: from savages to saints; chapters from the life stories of famous missionaries and native converts. **$1. Funk.
The taming and Christianizing of cannibal tribes make a record of remarkable conquests for the churches. This narrative extols the fearless initiative of missionaries in entering these fields and arousing its people from a state of man-eating savagery. It records the history of missionary work, the resources of the islands, and future possibilities of the natives.
Pigafetta, Antonio. Magellan’s voyage around the world; the original text of the Ambrosian ms., with Eng. translation, notes, bibliography and index, by James Alexander Robertson; with portrait, and facsimiles of the original maps and plates. 2v. *$7.50. Clark, A. H.
An accurate transcription from the sixteenth-century Ambrosian manuscript of Milan appears in these volumes with a page-for-page translation into English. “Pigafetta is the best and fullest authority for Magellan’s voyage which is here completely presented in English for the first time.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“The most complete and accurate presentation of the Pigafetta manuscript and the data appertaining to it that has ever been made in any language. In the introduction and his excellent bibliography, Mr. Robertson has brought together the most complete array of data on the subject yet available.” James A. LeRoy.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 12: 125. O. ’06. 880w. Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 751. N. ’05. 60w.
“A work of laborious and admirable scholarship which should prove of interest both to professional students of history and ethnology and to the curious reader of travellers’ tales.”
+ + Nation. 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 630w.