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At the same time, not wishing to confine ourselves to Pigafetta's narrative entirely, we have compared and completed it with that of Maximilian Transylvain, secretary to Charles V., of which there is an Italian translation in Ramusio's valuable collection.
I have not met with any notice of one of these MAN-LIKE APES of earlier date than that contained in Pigafetta's 'Description of the Kingdom of Congo,* drawn up from the notes of a Portuguese sailor, Eduardo Lopez, and published in 1598.
Coconut soap is very hard, and brilliantly white, and is dissolved in salt water more easily than any other soap. On Pigafetta's map Leyte is divided into two parts, the north being called Baibay, and the south Ceylon. Pigaf., 70. According to Dr. Gerstaecker: Oedipoda subfasciata, Haan, Acridium Manilense, Meyen.
STAIR ELPHINSTONE DALRYMPLE, who visited the city with me in 1884. PIGAFETTA'S description I extract from CRAWFORD'S Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands. We mounted the elephants, the twelve men going before, carrying the presents. We thus proceeded to the house of the Governor, who gave us a supper of many dishes.
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