Testimony given by royal scribe Fernando Díaz de Toledo on the details requested by Ferdinand Magellan before the ordinary magistrate in Seville, Fernán Gutiérrez, concerning the people enrolled in the armada for the Spice Islands (August 9, 1519, Seville). It provides testimonies of the witnesses presented by Magellan who were responsible for recruitment: Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa, Antón de Salamón, Juan Bautista, Baltasar Pallán, Juan de Arriaga, and Juan Sebastián Elcano.
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