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 Charles V a pension of five hundred gold crowns, and was authorised to take for arms a globe, with the motto "Primus me circumdedisti". Amongst other sonnets to his memory, are the following:

Por tierra y por mar profundo Con iman y derrotero, Un Vascongado, el primero Dió la vuelta á todo el mundo. Conchita

Entraba en el breado y hueco pino, Tomando el dulce y suspirado puerto, Juan Sebastian del Cano, Vizcaino, Piloto de este mundo el mas esperto, Despues de haber andado en su camino Cuanto del mar se halla descubierto, En una nave dicha la Victoria: Hazaña digna de inmortal memoria. Mosquera

This volume contains six contemporary accounts of Magellan's voyage for the circumnavigation of the globe: one was written by a Genoese pilot of the fleet; the second by a Portuguese companion of Duarte Barbosa, which has been preserved by Ramusio; the third by Antonio Pigafetta of Vicenza: and the fourth is a letter of Maximilian Transylvanus, a Secretary of the Emperor Charles V; the fifth a log book of a pilot named Francisco Albo or Alvaro: the sixth is taken from Gaspar Correa's Lendas da India.

Of Pigafetta's account, four manuscripts are known, three of them are in French, and one in Italian. Two of the French manuscripts are in the Bibliothèque Impériale of Paris; one of these, numbered