HOM.01

European Discovery, 1521-1560, is the first volume of the History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents (HOM), compiled and edited by Rodrique Levesque.

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File:HOM.01.pdf The History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents was complied, edited and published by Rod Levesque from 1992 to 2002. Copyrights were obtained by the Habele Outer Island Education Fund, a US nonprofit, in 2022, which digitized the content to facilitate noncommercial access to, and use of, the twenty-volume series. The PDF file for HOM.01 is roughly 65MB.

Levesque's Summary

Volume 1 contains 71 chapters, 100 documents, beginning with the prehistory of the Pacific, the discovery of America and the South Sea, as well as all primary source documents from Portuguese and Spanish archives on the expeditions from Magellan to Villalobos. There are 23 documents about the voyage of Magellan. Other explorers are also featured: Balboa, Espinosa, Elcano, Da Rocha, Loaysa, Saavedra, Grijalva, Castro, De la Torre, and De Retes.

There are two parts on the early cartography of the Pacific —the myth and the reality. By the end of this period many of the northern Marshall Islands had been discovered.

—List of the 233 illustrations, starting with maps of Oceania and Micronesia, the World as it was 200 million years ago, migration routes, migrating canoes and Micronesian languages, and many maps to illustrate the early cartography of the Pacific. Each document is illustrated to show the routes taken by each ship, the islands discovered, etc.

—A list of abbreviations, a foreword to explain the origin of this project and a concise historical sketch of the period.

—An introduction giving some milestones of the prehistory of Micronesia.

—The first documents are about Columbus: the map he used to reach "Japan”, the letter he wrote to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to announce the discovery of a New World, and his crew list.

—The Papal Bulls and the Treaties that divided the New World into Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence: the Line of Demarcation controversies, Treaties of Tordesillas, Vitoria, Badajoz.

—The early cartography of the Pacific, in 2 parts, maps and globes of the first century of exploration.

—How Balboa discovered the South Sea or Pacific Ocean in 1513.

— 23 documents on the Magellan expedition: his contract, his ships, his crews, with all eyewitness accounts by Pigafetta, Alvo and other sailors, and the official accounts by Peter Martyr and Max Transylvanus.

—5 documents on Captain Espinosa's attempted return to America and his dis-covery of Sonsorol and of the Northern Marianas Islands (includes the story of 3 sailors who deserted his ship at Maug in 1522).

—4 documents on Captain Elcano’s return to Spain in the Victoria and the hero’s welcome.

—4 documents on Captain Da Rocha’s voyage and the Portuguese discovery of Ulithi in 1525.

—7 documents on the Loaysa expedition with eyewitness accounts by Urdaneta, Uriarte’s logbook, and many reports by Bustamante, Salinas and others, plus 8 other primary documents summarized.

—6 chapters on Saavedra’s voyages, 1527-1529, listing 18 narratives and recon-structing his routes.

—2 documents on the little-known Grijalva expedition from Peru and the probable discovery of Kapingamarangi by Captain Castilla in the ship Santiago.

—1 document on the Portuguese Captain Castro and his gospel mission.

—Finally, 7 chapters on the important Villalobos expedition and his voyages from 1542 to 1546 with a fleet of 6 ships, a summary of 22 documents, the discoveries of many of the Marshall Islands (Wotje, Likiep, Wotho), as well as the attempted return voyages by Captains de la Torre and de Retes. A rare document by the Augustinian Father Aganduru Moriz is also brought to light.

—A summary list of ships through Micronesia for the period 1521-1565.

Table of Contents

HOM.01.1513 : Balboa’s discovery of the South Sea in 1513

HOM.01.1510 : Cartography of the Pacific Part 1

HOM.01.1550 : Cartography of the Pacific Part 2

HOM.01.1537B : Castilla ex Grijalva Narrative of Miguel Noble as recorded by Galvao

HOM.01.1492A : Columbus discovered a new world and prepared the way for the other discoveries that followed

HOM.01.1518B : Contract between King Charles I of Spain and Magellan regarding the discovery of the Spice Islands

HOM.01.1525E : Da Rocha’s voyage Accounts by Barros and others analyzed by Lessa

HOM.01.1525B : Da Rocha’s voyage Secondary account by Galvao pointing at the discovery by the Portuguese of the Sequeira or Ulithi Islands in 1525

HOM.01.1525D : Da Rocha’s voyage Tertiary account by Andrade

HOM.01.1525C : Da Rocha’s voyage Tertiary account by Faria e Sousa

HOM.01.1522E : Elcano’s voyage Return of the ship Victoria to Spain

HOM.01.1522A : Espinosa’s account of his attempt to reach Panama and of the discovery of the Northern Mariana Islands

HOM.01.1522B : Espinosa’s voyage Other primary source documents

HOM.01.1522C : Espinosa’s voyage Primary account by a Genoese pilot

HOM.01.1522D : Espinosa’s voyage Secondary account by Antonio Galvao pointing at the discovery of the Sonsorol Islands

HOM.01.1519B : Final instructions given to Magellan by the King

HOM.01.1538 : Galvao sent Captain Castro on a gospel mission to the Philippines

HOM.01.1537A : Grijalva expedition Captain Castilla Overview by Navarrete

HOM.01.1526A : Introduction to the Loaysa expedition

HOM.01.1522F : Letter from Captain Elcano to Emperor Charles V dated 7 September 1522

HOM.01.1525A : Letter from Peter Martyr to Pope Clement VII dated Toledo 13 September 1525

HOM.01.1524C : Letter from Peter Martyr to the Archbishop of Cosenza dated Burgos 14 July 1524

HOM.01.1519A : Letter from the King of Spain to Magellan

HOM.01.1519G : Letter from the Portuguese factor Sebastian Alvarez to the King of Portugal

HOM.01.1492B : List of the officers and sailors in the first voyage of Columbus

HOM.01.1527F : Loaysa and Saavedra Some additional details by Oviedo

HOM.01.1521J : Magellan and Espinosa Account by Antonio Brito Portuguese Governor of the Moluccas

HOM.01.1518C : Magellan Letter of commission from the King

HOM.01.1519F : Magellan’s crews

HOM.01.1519D : Magellan’s last memorandum to the King

HOM.01.1519C : Magellan’s last will and testament of 1519

HOM.01.1518A : Magellan’s petition to the King

HOM.01.1519E : Magellan’s ships and their contents

HOM.01.1521C2 : Magellan’s voyage A study of Magellan’s track across the Pacific

HOM.01.1521E : Magellan’s voyage Anonymous Portuguese manuscript

HOM.01.1521H : Magellan’s voyage Letter from a Spanish spy in Portuguese India to the King of Spain

HOM.01.1521G : Magellan’s voyage Official accounts by Peter Martyr

HOM.01.1521D : Magellan’s voyage Primary account by a Genoese pilot

HOM.01.1521C1 : Magellan’s voyage Primary account by Francisco Alvo from his logbook

HOM.01.1521B2 : Magellan’s voyage Primary account by Pigafetta Excerpt from the original Italian manuscript

HOM.01.1521A2 : Magellan’s voyage Primary account by Pigafetta Extract from the French manuscripts themselves

HOM.01.1521A1 : Magellan’s voyage Primary account by Pigafetta from the French manuscripts

HOM.01.1521B1 : Magellan’s voyage Primary account by Pigafetta from the Italian manuscript

HOM.01.1521F : Magellan’s voyage Secondary account by Maximilian of Transylvania

HOM.01.1527A : Saavedra’s voyages 1527–29 Introductory chapter

HOM.01.1527E : Saavedra’s voyages Galvao’s account

HOM.01.1527B : Saavedra’s voyages Narrative attributed to Saavedra as recorded by the clerk Granado

HOM.01.1527C : Saavedra’s voyages Primary account by Urdaneta

HOM.01.1527D : Saavedra’s voyages Primary account by Vicente de Napoles

HOM.01.1526C : Salazar ex Loaysa First eyewitness account by Urdaneta

HOM.01.1526E : Salazar ex Loaysa Letter from Bustamante and Salinas to the Emperor dated 3 May 1529

HOM.01.1526F : Salazar ex Loaysa Other existing primary accounts

HOM.01.1526B : Salazar ex Loaysa Report by Hernando de la Torre with extracts from Martin de Uriarte’s logbook

HOM.01.1526D : Salazar ex Loaysa Second eyewitness account by Urdaneta ending June 1535

HOM.01.1526G : Salazar ex Loaysa Secondary accounts about Micronesian canoes

HOM.01.1504 : Testament of Queen Isabella of Spain who died in 1504

HOM.01.1524B : The Conference of Badajoz April May 1524

HOM.01.1501 : The Papal Bull Eximiaz dated 16 November 1501

HOM.01.1493 : The Papal Bull of 4 May 1493 established the Line of Demarcation, thus splitting the New World into Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence

HOM.01.15211 : The story of Enrique Magellan’s slave

HOM.01.1494 : The Treaty of Tordesillas changed the Line of Demarcation

HOM.01.1524A : The Treaty of Vitoria

HOM.01.1529 : The Treaty of Zaragoza Emperor Charles V sold his rights to the Moluccas to King John III of Portugal for 350,000 ducats

HOM.01.1542D : Villalobos Galvao’s narrative

HOM.01.1542C : Villalobos Letter from Fr. Santiesteban to Viceroy Mendoza dated Cochin 22 February 1547

HOM.01.1542G : Villalobos Letter from Viceroy Mendoza to the Council of the Indies circa 1546

HOM.01.1542B : Villalobos Narrative of Garcia de Escalante Alvarado dated Lisbon 1 September 1548

HOM.01.1542E : Villalobos Narrative of Juan Gaytan

HOM.01.1542A : Villalobos Source documents about his expedition 1542–46

HOM.01.1542F : Villalobos Summary of the accounts by the Augustinian Fathers aboard by Fr. Aganduru Moriz

Publication Details

Lévesque Rodrigue. History of Micronesia : A Collection of Source Documents. Vol. 1 European Discovery 1521-1560. Gatineau Qué: Lévesque Publications; 1992.

ISBN-10: 0920201016

ISBN-13: 978-0920201015

LCC: DU500 .H58 2000