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Spanish and Portuguese Conflict in the Spice Islands the Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525-1535 - From Book XX of The General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes (Hardcover)
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Spanish and Portuguese Conflict in the Spice Islands the Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525-1535 - From Book XX of The General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes (Hardcover)
Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Series
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Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, (1478-1557), warden of the
fortress and port of Santo Domingo of the Island of Hispaniola,
also served his emperor, Charles V, as the official chronicler of
the first half-century of the Spanish presence in the New World.
His monumental General y Natural Historia de las Indias, consisting
of three parts, with fifty books, hundreds of chapters and
thousands of pages, is still a major primary source for researchers
of the period 1492-1548. Part One, consisting of 19 books, was
first published in 1535, then reprinted and augmented in 1547, with
a third edition, including Book XX, the first book of Part II,
appearing in Valladolid in 1557. Book XX, which was printed
separately in Valladolid in 1557 (the year of Oviedo's death),
concerns the first three Spanish voyages to the East Indies. While
it might be expected that the narrative of Magellan's voyage would
predominate in Book XX, Oviedo devoted only the first four chapters
to this monumental voyage. The remaining thirty-one concern the two
subsequent and little-known Spanish follow-up expeditions to the
Moluccas 1525-35. The first, initially led by Garcia Jofre de
Loaysa, set out from Coruna to follow Magellan's route through the
Strait and across the Pacific. A second relief expedition under
Alvaro Saavedra was sent out in search of Loaysa's company from the
Pacific coast of New Spain in 1527. In each venture only one vessel
reached the Spice Islands. Oviedo's narrative offers many details
of the 10 years of hardships and conflict with the Portuguese,
endured by the stoic Spanish, and of the growing unrest it provoked
among their indigenous hosts. The news that Charles V had pawned
his claim to the King Joao III of Portugal allowed a very few of
the Spaniards to negotiate a passage back to Spain via Lisbon,
while others remained in Portuguese settlements in the East Indies.
The reports made by the returnees to the Consejo de Indias were
integrated by Oviedo into his narrative, expanded and enriched by
personal interviews. His chronicle includes much information about
the indigenous culture, commerce, geography and of the exotic fauna
and flora of the Spice Islands.
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