Garcia Jofre de Loaisa - Papers relating to his expedition to the Pacific and Moluccas, 1525-1536

PMB 135

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

440625

Microfilm : PMB 135

microfilm reel 35 mm

The expedition of Garcia Jofre de Loaisa left Spain for the Moluccas on 24 July 1525, to open up the spice trade initiated by the Magellan expedition. Of the seven ships under Loaisa originally, only four entered the Pacific - via the Strait of Magellan, on 26 May 1526. A few days later, they were separated by a storm. One ship, the Santiago, made her way to Mexico; another, the San Lesmes, was not heard of again; and the remaining two, the Santa Maria de la Victoria and Santa Maria del Parral, crossed the Pacific independently

The documents on these microfilms concern the fitting out and dispatch of the expedition, accounts of the expedition's proceedings, and claims for salaries by dependents of expedition members who died in the Moluccas or on the voyage out

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 135
Reel 1 of a six-reel set PMB 135-140
The original documents are arranged in bundles or 'patronatos'. The information given is a translated and edited version made by the PMB from that contained on pp. 78-91 of the Boletim da Filmoteca Iltramarina Portuguesa, no. 32, Lisbon 1966
Patronato 37, Documents 11-33
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original held by Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain
A more comprehensive list of contents for each reel (of the six-reel set) is available from the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau on request