“Alejándonos de estas islas para continuar nuestra ruta, alcanzamos a los 49° 30′ de latitud sur, donde encontramos un buen puerto y como ya se nos aproximaba el invierno, juzgamos conveniente pasar ahí el mal tiempo.

Transcurrieron dos meses antes de que avistásemos a ninguno de los habitantes del país. Un día en que menos lo esperábamos se nos presentó un hombre de estatura gigantesca. Era tan alto que con la cabeza apenas le llegábamos a la cintura. Nuestro capitán dio a este pueblo el nombre de patagones. En este puerto, el cual pusimos el nombre de San Julián, gastamos cinco meses.” Pigafetta

“Departing thence as far as forty nine degrees and a half in the Antarctic heavens (as we were in the winter), we entered into a port to pass the winter, and remained there two whole months without ever seeing anybody. However, one day, without anyone expecting it, we saw a giant, who was on the shore of the sea, quite naked, and was dancing and leaping, and singing, and whilst singing he put the sand and dust on his head. The captain named this kind of people Pataghom We remained in this port, which was called the port of St. Julian, about five months, during which there happened to us many strange things.” Pigafetta

“Continuamos en seguida nuestra derrota pegados a la costa hasta los 34° 40′ de latitud meridional, donde encontramos un gran río de agua dulce. Aquí es donde habitan los caníbales. Este río forma siete islas pequeñas, en la mayor de las cuales, llamada cabo de Santa María, se encuentran piedras preciosas. Anteriormente se había creído que esa agua no era la de un río sino un canal por el cual se pasaba al Mar del Sur, pero se vio bien pronto que no era sino un río que tiene diecisiete leguas de ancho en su desembocadura.” Pigafetta

“Departing from it and following our course, we went as far as thirty-four degrees and a third towards the antarctic pole; there we found, near a river, men whom they call cannibals. In this same river there were seven little islands, and in the largest of them precious stones are found. This place was formerly called the Cape of St. Mary and it was thought there that from thence there was a passage to the Sea of Sur, that is to say, the South Sea. And now it is no longer a cape, but it is a river which has a mouth seventeen leagues in width, by which it enters into the sea.” Pigafetta

“After that we had passed the equinoctial line, towards the south, we lost the star of the tramontana, and we navigated between the south and Garbin, which is the collateral wind [or point] between south and west; and we crossed as far as a country named Verzin, which is in twenty-four degrees and a half of the antarctic sky. This country is from the cape St. Augustine, which is in eight degrees in the antarctic sky.” Pigafetta

“On the twenty-sixth of the said month we arrived at an island of great Canaria, named Teneriphe, which is in twenty-eight degrees latitude; there we remained three days and a half to take in provisions and other things which were wanted. After that we set sail thence and came to a port named Monterose, where we sojourned two days to supply ourselves with pitch, which is a thing necessary for ships.“ Pigafetta.

“A few days afterwards the captain-general came along the said river with his boat, and the masters of the other ships with him, and we remained some days in this port to supply the fleet with some necessary things. We went every day to hear mass on shore, at a church named Our Lady of Barrameda, towards St. Lucar. There the captain commanded that all the men of the fleet should confess before going on any further, in which he himself showed the way to the others. Besides he did not choose that anyone should bring any married woman, or others to the ships, for several good considerations. Tuesday, the 20th September of the said year, we set sail from St. Lucar, making the course of the south-west otherwise.“ Pigafetta.

“After having passed the two columns we came to another place named Coria, and passing by many little
villages lying along the said river, at last we arrived at a castle, which belongs to the Duke of Medina
Sidonia, named St. Lucar, where there is a port from which to enter the ocean sea. It is entered by the east
wind and you go out by the west wind. Near there is the cape of St. Vincent, which, according to
cosmography, is in thirty-seven degrees of latitude, at twenty miles distance from the said port; and from
the aforesaid town to this port by the river there are thirty-five or forty miles.“ Pigafetta.

“Monday, the day of St. Laurence, the 10th of August, in the year above mentioned, the fleet, provided with what was necessary for it, and carrying crews of different nations, to the number of two hundred and thirty-seven men in all the five ships, was ready to set sail from the mole of Seville; and firing all the artillery. “Pigafetta

“that is to say that the masters and captains of the other ships of his company did not love him: of this I do not know the reason, except by cause of his, the captain-general, being Portuguese, and they were Spaniards or Castilians, who for a long time have been in rivalry and ill will with one another.” Pigafetta