portance to students, has never been adequately pub- 

 lished. Stanley, in his translation for the Hakluyt 

 Society, omits many passages relating to the manners 

 and customs of native peoples, mis-translates other 

 passages; and furthermore does not translate from 

 the original Italian, but in part from a defective 

 French MS. of later date, and in part from Amoretti's 

 garbled printed edition of the Ambrosian MS. 



The MS. which we use is the oldest in existence 

 and is conserved in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana at 

 Milan. This MS. was purported to have been pub- 

 lished in 1 800 by Amoretti, but his publication was 

 what the Italians call a refacitnentOy in which the 

 order is entirely changed at times to say nothing of 

 the meaning. To insure a correct version of the text, 

 the editor, Mr. Robertson, visited Milan and under- 

 took the transcription personally. 



The numerous charts of the original are carefully 

 reproduced, together with a rare early map, showing 

 Magellan's discoveries in the Far East. To preserve 

 the archaic forms and peculiar letters of the old 

 Italian, type has been specially designed and cut for 

 many peculiar characters. The editing and annota- 

 tion are elaborate and exhaustive; an Index and a 

 complete Bibliography are added, making this the 



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