This continues the list of reprehensible acts of the Spanish Expedition captain general Ferdinand Magellan towards the Cebu natives during his fleet's sojourn in our archipelago in 1521. The voyage chronicler Antonio Pigafetta recorded those acts in startling detail in his French manuscript that he never got published in his lifetime. That manuscript was evidently suppressed for posterity but an Augustinian priest found it purely by chance in a Milan library 275 years later.
These passages are excerpted from Pigafetta's recovered French manuscript as translated into English in 1874 by Lord Stanley of Alderley:
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