Ordoñez de Cevallos, Pedro:

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VIAGE DEL MVNDO.... The first edition of Pedro Ordoñez de Cevallos' description of his travels around the world and in the Spanish colonies in South America, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It is one of the earliest published personal narratives of a circumnavigation, and the first to recount a circumnavigation beginning in the Americas. "Pedro Ordoñez de Cevallos was born at Jaen in the middle of the sixteenth century. At an early age he travelled to Chile, the Antilles and Mexico in Valverde's fleet. Later he visited the Philippines from Acapulco and various East Indian Islands. In this account of his travels are many interesting details regarding the productions, costumes, customs and manners, from a soldier's point of view" - Herschel Jones.Ordoñez de Cevallos was born about 1557, and travelled extensively as a soldier of fortune from the 1570s in the eastern Mediterranean, to Jerusalem, Crete, and northern Africa. In the 1580s he went to the New World, visiting Bermuda en route. The narrative is one of the earliest publications to include material about Bermuda, containing two chapters about the island. Bermuda was first noted by Oviedo in his Historia General... of 1535, but there was no permanent colony until the English settlement in 1612.Much of Ordoñez de Cevallos' career was spent in the Spanish colonies of South America. He settled in Quito, Ecuador in 1590 and travelled to other parts of the continent. Around 1600 he travelled with the Manila Galleon t

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