读史笔记:太平洋

当巴波亚跳水挥剑
宣布这一片海域
“南方海洋”--施洗
成为西班牙领地

新的教皇条约规定
葡、西分界,佛得角西
2057公里,巴西
成为葡萄牙领地

香料岛,摩鹿加群岛
离“南方海洋”肯定近
海宽不会超过1850公里
应属于西班牙势力

整整三个月又二十天
无补充食物与饮水
发霉的饼,蛀虫,老鼠
屎尿味,饮水发臭

饥饿折磨,坏血病
人们纷纷倒下
百多日,航行两万公里
海面上异常平静

03/02/10

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读麦哲伦环球航海记,皮加费塔记载的。麦哲伦一行237人,于08/10/1519由赛
维亚出发,1522返航只剩下18人,连麦哲伦都逝了命。

巴波亚9/26/1513“发现”太平洋,当时洗礼名“南方海洋”。麦哲伦吃了巴塔戈尼
亚的苦头后,以为南方海洋不大,忘了备充足的食与水。太平洋海水平静,倒象哥
伦布初航天公作美,只可惜船上死病伤重。

太平洋的名是麦哲伦占的,故有此笔记。麦哲伦一行未及香料岛摩鹿加,宣布菲律
宾为西班牙领地。使西班牙帝国的势力范围从美洲一直到菲律宾。一行至马里亚群
岛为什么未见诸多太平洋岛屿,估计是死伤太烈影响情绪。

太平洋太平,船上一点也不太平。



On Wednesday the twenty-eighth of November, one thousand five hundred and twenty, we issued forth from the said strait and entered the Pacific Sea, where we remained three months and twenty days without taking on board provisions or any other refreshments, and we ate only old biscuit turned to powder, all full or worms and stinking of the urine which the rats had made on it, having eaten the good. And we drank water impure and yellow. We ate also ox hides which were very hard because of the sun, rain, and wind......

Besides the aforesaid troulbes, this malady was the worst, namely that the gums of most part of our men swelled above and below so that they could not eat. And in this way they died......

During these three months and twenty days, we sailed in a gulf where we made a good four thousand leagues across the Pacific Sea, which was rightly so named.

Antonio Pigafetta, - Magellan's Voyage.