GLAN, SARANGANI PROVINCE — A historical marker will be installed here on a hill overlooking Nanga cove of Purok Mabuhay in the coastal village of Batulaki where the surviving crew of Magellan, by then led by Sebastian El Cano, dropped anchor on October 26, 1521.
In a detailed account of the voyage, Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian scholar and explorer, wrote that the remaining crew of the expedition formerly led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, dropped anchor at “Biraham Batulach,” known today as Barangay Batulaki, to seek temporary sanctuary from a raging storm.
El Cano already took over the leadership of the expedition after Magellan was killed fou…
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