Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1911 — TELLS OF MAGELLAN’S TRIP [ARTICLE]

TELLS OF MAGELLAN’S TRIP

Story of Voyage Around World, Nearly 400 Years Ago, Has Just Been Published by a German. ' -y) The Hague.—Although nearly four hundred years have elapsed since Magellan sailed around the world, the true history of the voyage has been published for the first time. Until recently no published document relating to the expedition had ever been lound, though it was known that an account had been written by the Portuguese, Fearando Oilvlera, because a later writer of the same nationality quoted briefly from that work. Recently the long lost document was discovered in the University of Leyden library by the German historian, Herr Vogel, who immediately published a German translation of it in the Marine Rundschau. Besides Interesting particulars as to ship construction in those days, the document contains the whole story of the first voyage around the world by Magellan. Certain indications make it probable that the actual writer of the account was a companion of the discover. “As one of the oldest geographical papers extant it is considered to be of almost priceless value.